KIEV: Sunseed meal exports from Ukraine totaled more than 463 KMT in December 2016. The pace of export sales somewhat slowed from the previous month (515 KMT), although being up 4.4% from the same period last year (444 KMT).
In general, the current season shows record high export figures: 1469.5 KMT of sunseed meal was supplied to foreign markets for the first four months of MY 2016/17, up 12.7% year-on-year, reports UkrAgroConsult.
The top importers of Ukrainian sunseed meal remain European countries (60% of total exports) and Belarus (12%). Remarkably, while the EU boosted purchases of this product, deliveries to Belarus decreased 6.3%. As noted before, Turkey reduced sunseed meal imports almost three and a half times and simultaneously increased sunseed imports.