KIEV, June 1 ??“ Trade on the Ukrainian grain market has been almost stopped due to uncertainty over the cancellation of wheat export quotas and impact of drought on the future grain harvest, according agriculture market experts.

"The market has frozen: farmers are holding grain, and traders don't buy [grain] due to uncertainties over the cancellation of export quotas and talk of possible restrictions on grain exports in the new marketing year," Mykola Vernytsky, head of the analytical company ProAgro, told Interfax-Ukraine.