Ukraine last year delivered to foreign markets livestock products, crops, fats and oils of animal or vegetable origin, as well as ready-made food worth $17.9 billion, while imports of goods amounted to $7.4 billion, the State Statistics Office said in a statement Thursday.
 
"As for the foreign trade turnover of agricultural products, in January-February 2013 it stood at $ 4.4 billion, 27.9% more than over the same period in 2012," the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food says.
 
According to the report, exports of agricultural products in the first two months of 2013 rose compared to January-February 2012 by 26.3%, up to $3 billion, and imports - 31.5%, $1.4 billion.
 
With export contracts for crop production, Ukrainian farmers earned $2.8 billion, 27.7% more than in the first two months of last year.
 
An increase in exports of livestock products is 6.2%, or 163.4 million. Major exporters of Ukrainian agricultural products were the Russian Federation, India and Spain.
 


 

Ukrinform