As noted in the department, total exported wheat 9.5 million tons, barley - 3.71 million tons, rye - 9.1 thousand. tons, maize - 2.68 million tons.

Also, during the reporting period, agrarians put on foreign markets 163.3 thousand. tons of flour, of which 162.7 thousand. tons is wheat flour and 0.6 thousand. tons - other types of this product. At the same time, revenues from grain exports increased by six percent, to $ 6.4 billion.

According to the State Statistics Service, in 2016 Ukraine collected 65.95 million tons of grains and legumes, which is 9.7 percent more than in 2015, and is a record for the country for the years of independence.

As previously reported in URA-Inform, the Ukrainian state for eight months of 2017 increased the production of chocolate products, as well as products containing cocoa by 20 percent. So, only in January-September, more than 137 thousand tons of chocolate were produced, which is three percent more than in 2016.