KYIV, Aug 3 - The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine has raised the forecast for wheat harvest by one million tons, to 24 million tons.

"Today we've received live information from the regions and based on it we improve our current forecast for wheat harvest and its food component. After having threshed 74% of the areas, we expect the wheat harvest at the level of 24 million tons, of which 13 million tons is food wheat," First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maksym Martyniuk wrote on his official Facebook page.