December 24, 2007

Ukraine's corn looking for new markets

Ukraine, the world's fourth largest corn exporter, faces opportunities to enter new markets of corn export, Director General of the "Nibulon" Oleksiy Vadaturskyi said.

Ukraine is ideally located to ship corn to Africa and Middle East, he said, adding that the rising popularity of bioethanol use would boost corn usage in the region.

Besides being a major corn exporter, Ukraine is also the world's top exporter of sunflower seeds and it is the second largest exporter for barley.