KIEV: Wheat bran production in Ukraine decreased by 36% in January compared with December 2015 and reached 44 KMT. Despite the reduction of domestic demand, wheat bran exports decreased in January. Ukraine exported 33 KMT in January 2016 that was nearly 50% less than a month before. Nevertheless, it’s a traditional decline of exports for January.
Turkey, the main importer of Ukrainian wheat bran, reduced purchases in January 2016 to 17.8 KMT against 26.6 KMT in January 2015.
Saudi Arabia, on the contrary, increases wheat bran imports from Ukraine. Since the beginning of the current season Ukraine exported 31.2 KMT of wheat bran to Saudi Arabia compared with 14.3 KMT in the 2014/15 MY. The share of Saudi Arabia’s imports reached 9% against 2.6% last season.
