KIEV, Sept. 29 – The opportunity to export duty-free up to 100,000 tons of bio-ethanol to the European Union if a free trade zone agreement is signed will boost its production in the future, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said.

He said that agreements reached during the latest round of talks between Ukraine and the European Commission are a signal to look for new markets to sell agricultural products and expand corn and sugar beets fields.