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Statistics Service said, to 60.3mn pieces (a fall of 49.5%), Mykolaiv to 30.8mn pieces (a fall of 47.1%) and Kharkiv to 100.2mn pieces (a fall of 40.3%), but increased significantly in Cherkasy region to 193.6mn pieces (a rise of 29%) According to the authority, milk production for the first quarter of 2021 decreased most of all in Rivne region – to 59,400 tonnes (a fall of 14.7%), Odessa region to 45,100 tonnes (a fall of 11.7%), Mykolaiv region to 43,300 tonnes (a fall of 11.4%), but increased in Ternopil region to 75,200 tonnes (a rise of 6.8%) and Khmelnytsky region to 131,100 tonnes (a rise of 3.9%).
Soybeans, a footnote to Ukraine’s grain story, are expected to see a 36% jump in production in the upcoming marketing year, 3.8mn tons. The USDA attributes this to a change in tax laws that make soybean production more profitable. Exports in the upcoming marketing year are expected to reach 2mn tons, up 20% over last year. This would make Ukraine the world’s six largest soy exporter, after Canada.
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