Ukraine exported about 1.24 million tonnes of grain, mostly corn, in the first 24 days of February, Kiev-based consultancy ProAgro said on Monday.
It said Ukraine exported about 951,000 tonnes of corn and 266,000 tonnes of wheat.No figures for the same period of 2011 were immediately available.
The consultancy said Ukrainian wheat went mostly to Italy (38,500 tonnes), Jordan (25,500 tonnes), Israel (72,000 tonnes) and Spain (52,500 tonnes).
The former Soviet republic supplied corn mostly to Egypt (172,000 tonnes), Iran (139,500 tonnes), South Korea (59,700 tonnes), Japan (50,100 tonnes), Germany, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and Turkey.
An additional 957,000 tonnes of corn, 257,000 tonnes of wheat and 106,000 tonnes of barley would be exported in the near future, it said.
The Agriculture Ministry forecasts exports at about 23 million tonnes of grain in the 2011/12 season after Ukraine harvested a record 56.7 million tonnes of grain in 2011.
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