The country exported sunflower oil to the EU countries in record quantities compared to other exporters and, according to the Agronews portal, won the status of the largest supplier.
If we turn to the numbers, we get the following:
Since the beginning of the season of the current MY, Ukraine has supplied 662,000 tons of products. This accounted for 86% of the total volume of all oil imported to the EU countries, including rapeseed and soybean.
Experts also noted that Ukraine was in the first position in the list of suppliers of soybean oil. The volume of supplies of these products is 911,000 tons, which is 38.7% of the total amount of supplies to the EU.
As for rapeseed, Ukraine became the leader among suppliers with a result of 48,300 tons, 35.6%, respectively. Russia is in second place (38,300 tons, 28.2%), Belarus is in third place (26,500 tons, 19.6%), Canada and Serbia are fourth and fifth, 12,100 (8.9%) and 6,200 (4.6%) tons, respectively.