KIEV, July 11 – The prolonged rainy spell late in June and early in July damaged almost 8% of Ukraine's grain crops, according to Oleksandr Demidov, the director of the crop markets department at Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.

Grain sprouted on 1.5% of the areas under crops, 5.2% of the crop fell over and 1% died, he said at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.

He said certified warehouses have already received 650,000 tons of newly harvested grain, including 11% of second-grade wheat, 34% third-grade wheat, and 10% fourth-grade wheat. He said that the ratio of food and coarse grain is about 50 to 50.