KIEV, Aug 4 – Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry has forecast that grain exports will total 36 million tons in the 2015/2016 marketing year (July through June), up from 34.8 million tons the prior year.

"We'd like to boost exports. We've got preliminary estimates – we'd like to export 36 million tons instead of 34.6 million tons," Agrarian Policy and Food Oleksiy Pavlenko told reporters at a briefing in Kiev on Monday.