According to the press service of Ukroliyaprom, in the 2019-2020 marketing year, refined sunflower oil from Ukraine, including packaged products, will be in high demand in the international market.
If we compare the period from September to July 2019-2020 with the same period in 2018-2019, an increase in the volume of sunflower oil exports abroad becomes noticeable. We are talking about natural and cost terms. So, for example, in terms of volume, an increase to 129% (to 627.4 thousand tons), and in price equivalent – 136% (an increase to $ 555.5 million).
Changes also affected the geography of product exports. Thus, according to the source, the EU began to import 2.2 times more Ukrainian oil, the amount of products imported into the United States increased by 2.4 times.