(Adds details, export data)
KYIV, May 1 (Reuters) - Ukraine's grain exports totalled
3.62 million tonnes in April compared with 923,000 tonnes in
April 2022 when all the country's Black Sea ports were blocked
due to the Russian invasion, Ukrainian farm ministry data showed
on Monday.
Access to three Ukrainian Black Sea ports in Odesa region
was cleared at the end of last July under a deal between Moscow
and Kyiv brokered by the United Nations and Turkey.
The ministry said overall grain exports for the 2022/23
season stood at 41.6 million tonnes as of May 1, including about
14.4 million tonnes of wheat, 24.4 million tonnes of corn and
about 2.5 million tonnes of barley.
The data showed that Ukraine exported 45.9 million tonnes of
grain in the same period in the 2021/22 season.
A major grain grower and exporter, Ukraine's grain output
dropped to about 53 million tonnes in clean weight in the 2022
calendar year from a record 86 million tonnes in 2021.
Officials have blamed the fall on hostilities in the
country's eastern, northern and southern regions.
The government has said Ukraine can harvest 44.3 million
tonnes of grain or even up to 50 million tonnes in 2023 if the
weather is favourable.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk, Editing by Louise Heavens,
Kirsten Donovan)
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