KIEV, Sept. 12 – The United States Department of Agriculture has revised Ukraine's grain harvest for 2011 up by 6.5%, or by 3.1 million tons, to 50.4 million tons from the forecast given a month ago.

The forecast of grain exports from Ukraine in the current marketing year (July 2011 through June 2012) was also upgraded to 23.1 million tons against the 21.1 million tons forecast before.