Millet Field

Ukraine Started Harvesting Millets

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ODESA: Last two years Ukrainian millet is in constant good demand among European buyers. Despite good demand, Ukrainian farmers couldn’t increase their areas under millet, because the millet sowing campaign fell on the period of the most intense battles with Russian invaders. So the total areas under millets reduced from 110 thousand ha in 2021 to 50 thousand ha in 2022.

As of now, Ukrainian agrarians have harvested 7.7 thousand tons of millet from 3.2 thousand ha (7%). Prices range wasn’t really formed yet. On one hand, the demand from EU is not very big now with new crops coming in France. And on the other hand, the traders realise that the total volumes in Ukraine will twice less this year. Traders are ready to buy yellow and red millet at 240-250usd/t FCA, but farmers are not in a hurry to sell their stocks so far.