KIEV, Nov. 29 - Ukraine has exported 6.808 million tons of grain from the beginning of the agricultural year (July 2011 - June 2012) through November 28, 1.68 million tons more than in the same period of last year, reports Serhiy Kvasha, the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry's Director of the Department for Economic Development and the Agrarian Market.

This figure is 4.44 million tons less than in the same period of the 2009-2010 agricultural year, he said.

As of November 28, Ukraine had exported 2.14 million tons of wheat (1.155 million tons for food and 985,000 tons for forage), 1.836 million tons of barley and 2.756 million tons of corn.