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Ministry of Agrarian Policy expects 2006 grain crop will total 34.7 mn MT
19.10.2006 12:41 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As to Petro Verbytskiy, Deputy Ministry of Agrarian Policy, press-conference report, Ministry is convinced this year all categories companies grain crop will reach 34.7 mn MT. As to Verbytskiy, Ministry expects this year wheat and maize crops will be down (correspondingly 4.4 mn MT and over 2 mn MT) against last year. Deputy Minister admitted Ukrainian internal food grain requirement totals 17 mn MT. «Government has introduced grain quoting measures in order to assure country food security, that is, to provide population with bread and stockbreeding with feeds,» declared Verbytskiy. As to Agro Perspective earlier report, Ministry of Agrarian Policy had declared this year all categories companies grains crop will total 35.3 mn MT (in terms of weight after additional processing). As to Agro Perspective, 2005 and 2004 grains crops were correspondingly 38.015 mn MT and 41.8 mn MT (in terms of acceptance weight).
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