About 47% of the agricultural exports of Ukraine are sent to Asia, said at a press conference on the last working day of the week the head of Ministry of agrarian policy and food of Belarus Alexei Pavlenko.
"This year was a year of renewed international vector agrarian sector of Ukraine. Turned out to significantly diversify exports, open up fresh markets and sign a series of important bilateral cooperation agreements in industry ", - said Pavlenko.
in January-August 2015 in the structure of exports of agricultural products of Ukraine 46, 7% are from Asia (the market is determined by 4, 2 billion dollars), EU - 25, 7% (2, 3 billion dollars), Africa - 13, 7% (1, 2 billion dollars), the CIS - 10, 8% (968, 6 million), USA - 0, 3% (28, $ 3 million), other countries - 2, 6% (238, 1 million dollars), he said.
Thus, in the opinion of the Minister, the potential for cooperation with many countries in the agricultural sector remains unrealized. For example, According to Pavlenko, Russia's share in export of Ukrainian agricultural products does not exceed 2%.
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