OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2013. Since the beginning of 2012/2013 marketing year Ukraine has supplied to foreign markets more than 1.7 million tonnes of sunflower oil, which is 26% more than in the same period of the previous MY. A total amount of oil exports for the period amounted to USD 2 billion. This was announced by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.

"In the current marketing year, Ukraine takes the first seat in the world in terms of trade by sunflower oil. And this is 50% of the world market. That is we can say that every second liter of sunflower oil, which is sold in the world, produced in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the current marketing year, Ukraine produced 2,000,000 tonnes of this product, and approximately 80% of this amount was supplied to foreign markets," Mykola Prysyazhnyuk noted.

"We are actively working to expand our overseas markets. So, today the main importers of domestic sunflower oil are India - 30%, Egypt - 16%, EU - 16-18% and Turkey - 11%. Also sunflower oil supplies grow to China and Iran," Mykola Prysyazhnyuk added.