According to the results of January-August 2018, the commodity turnover of goods of the agrarian and food industries between Ukraine and the countries of the European Union reached $ 5.4 billion, which is $ 330 million more than in the same period last year. At the same time, exports of Ukrainian agricultural products to the EU markets exceeded $ 3.6 billion, Olha Trofimtseva, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine for European Integration said, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

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According to the results of January-June 2018 Ukrainian agrarian exports amounted to $ 8.6 billion. The total foreign trade turnover of agricultural products reached $ 11.3 billion, which is 3.5% more than in the same period of the previous year, and is 23% of the total foreign trade turnover Ukraine. This was told by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on issues of European integration Olha Trofimtseva, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

The volume of agricultural products sold by agrarian enterprises in January-May 2018 compared to the corresponding period of 2017 increased by 7.4%. This is reported by the website of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, agropolit.com reported.

In January-May 2018 the foreign trade turnover between Ukraine and the EU countries increased by 7.8% compared to the same period last year and amounted to almost $ 3.4 billion, $ 2.3 billion of which is the export of Ukrainian agrarian and food products to markets of the EU. The positive balance in bilateral trade over this period is $ 1.1 billion, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration Olha Trofimtseva noted.

Ukraine has a great potential for the development of cooperation in the agroindustrial complex, as today domestic agricultural cooperatives produce only 1% of all agricultural products. This was said in an interview with Аgravery.com by people's deputy of Ukraine, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations Serhii Labaziuk.

Today Japan is among the priority foreign markets for expanding the sales of Ukrainian agrarian and food products. The successful development of this market requires joint systemic work of business and government. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration Olha Trofimtseva during her welcome speech at the business breakfast "FOODEX JAPAN - gateway to Asia: on the way to the national pavilion", the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

The trade turnover of agrarian and food products between Ukraine and Germany in January-April of 2018 increased by 49%, or by 79.6 million dollars to 239.039 million dollars. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food for European Integration, Olha Trofimtseva on her Facebook page, UNIAN reported.

Ukraine as of April 17, 2018 fully used six quotas for duty-free exports within the free trade area (FTA) with the EU, in particular honey, malt and wheat gluten, processed tomatoes, grape and apple juices, as well as wheat and corn. This is reported by agropolit.com.

By results of 2017 Ukraine became the third largest supplier of agro-food products in Turkey and took 7.2% of the structure of Turkish imports of agricultural products, being inferiror only to the USA and Russia. Over the past 5 years, exports from our country grew by $ 240.6 million, while imports fell by almost half - by $ 262.5 million or -47%, agronews.ua reported.