Ukraine among top 5 exporters of agricultural products to EU

Ukraine has promising prospects for expanding cooperation with the EU countries, Acting Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Maksym Martyniuk said in an interview with Ukrinform.

"Ukraine is among the top five exporters of agricultural products to the European Union," he said.

According to him, 308 domestic enterprises have the right to export products to the EU countries, and this number is constantly increasing, including in such "traditionally difficult" categories as livestock products.

In 2018, additional trade preferences for honey, grape juice, processed tomatoes, barley groats and flour, oats were introduced for Ukraine on the European market. In addition, a number of other licensed preferences is constantly expanding, Martyniuk added.

The Agrarian Policy Ministry praised the prospects for growth of export volumes of Ukrainian products to the "powerful and financially reliable" market of the EU.

For 11 months of 2018, the largest exporters of the Ukrainian agricultural products were India, China, the Netherlands, Spain, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Germany and Saudi Arabia.

Martyniuk headed the official delegation of Ukraine at the largest trade fair International Green Week in Berlin.