The volumes of industrial food production during in Ukraine increased in January-October of this year, acting agrarian policy and food minister of Ukraine Mykola Prysiazhniuk told a press conference, ForUm correspondent reports.
According to him, part of the sale of domestic production in the turnover of enterprises trading network is around 90-98%. Production of sugar and sunflower oil has increased especially.
"Sugar production is expected in the range of 2 million tons. This fully meets the needs of the domestic market and creates a significant export potential. 2.9 million tons of sunflower oil were produced for 10 months. The gross yield of sunflower is expected to be 11.9 million tons," he said.
Prysiazhniuk also said that over the last 10 years, Ukraine has become a global market leader in sunflower oil. Every second ton of sunflower oil, which is sold on the world market, is of Ukrainian origin.
