Since the beginning of April 2025, Ukraine has significantly reduced its wheat exports. As of April 14, only 300 thousand tons of this crop had been shipped, which is worrying in the context of the general decline in grain trade. Total exports of grain and leguminous crops since the beginning of the marketing year (July 2024 - June 2025) amounted to 33.9 million tons, reports the analytical company ProAgro Group, citing data from the State Customs Service of Ukraine.

Currently, the volume of Ukrainian grain exports is almost 4.7 million tons less than for the same period of the previous marketing year. Such a decline demonstrates the difficult situation on the world market, as well as internal difficulties associated with logistics and infrastructure challenges due to martial law.

Wheat supplies amounted to 13.42 million tons, which is 10.6% or 1.6 million tons less than last year. The largest drop is shown by corn: its export volume decreased by more than 3.4 million tons or 16.3% - to 17.72 million tons. At the same time, barley exports increased slightly: 2.24 million tons against 2.13 million tons last year, which is an increase of 5.2%. A slight but noticeable increase is also observed in rye exports - 10.8 thousand tons, while last year for the same period there was only 1 thousand tons.

In April, in addition to 300 thousand tons of wheat, Ukraine also exported 25 thousand tons of barley and 741 thousand tons of corn. The total volume of grain exports since the beginning of the month amounted to 1.07 million tons. For comparison, in more favorable years, Ukraine could export similar volumes per week.

The situation with flour is also disappointing: 55.5 thousand tons of grain products were delivered to foreign markets, of which 51.6 thousand tons were wheat flour. This is 33.5% or 28 thousand tons less than in the same period of the 2023/24 marketing year. In April, flour exports amounted to only 2.1 thousand tons.

The current indicators may affect not only the economy of the agricultural sector of Ukraine, but also the overall inflow of foreign exchange earnings to the budget. In light of the difficult situation associated with military risks, competition in the global market and changes in world tariffs, Ukrainian exporters will have to look for new ways to stabilize and enter foreign markets.