KYIV: Prices for Ukrainian wheat from the 2020 harvest rose by around $4 per tonne over the last week, supported by demand from importers and slow pace of harvest, analyst APK-Inform said on Monday.

The government has said Ukraine's 2020, grain harvest is likely to decrease to around 68 million tonnes from a record 75 million tonnes in 2019 due to a poor weather.

APK-Inform said in a statement Ukrainian milling wheat with 12.5pc protein was traded at $205-209 per tonnes FOB Black Sea at the end of last week versus $200-204 a week earlier.

In the 2019/20 July-June season Ukraine exported a record 56.5 million tonnes of grain.

Its 2020/21 July-June season grain exports remain slow at 719,000 tonnes so far versus around 1.7 million tonnes at the same point last season.