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Sunflower seeds: possible crop decline in Ukraine

December 13, 2023 at 4:15 PM , Der AUDITOR
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SOFIA/KYIV. There is little trading activity on the sunflower seed market at the end of the year, however this does not mean that it is a quiet period. Many processors and suppliers are working at full capacity until the end of the year.

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The sunflower seed harvest in Ukraine is almost complete at 99%. However, the production result to date cannot keep up with forecasts. Both the US Department of Agriculture and market analysts from UkrAgroConsult are still predicting a crop volume of 14.5 million mt and 14.2 million mt respectively. And even the Ukrainian Ministry of Agricultural Policy's estimate of 13 million mt is around 1 million mt higher than the previous result. By the end of last week, 5.014 million ha of sunflower seeds had been harvested in Ukraine, which corre

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