KIEV, Jan. 8 - Ukraine increased corn exports in 2013 by a third, to 9.5 million tons, the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry reported.

"Corn remains a major crop exported by Ukraine. Therefore, we are rapidly increasing its exports. This is confirmed by the results of supplies in 2013. Before the New Year farmers supplied 9.5 million tons of corn of the new harvest to foreign markets, i.e. over three million tons more than in the same period of the previous marketing year," Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said.