The volume includes 1.6 million tonnes of wheat, 1.0 million of barley and 1.6 million tonnes of corn, the ministry said in a statement.

Ukraine plans to harvest at least 70 million tonnes of grain this year, almost the same as it threshed in 2018.

The ministry gave no export forecast for the whole season. In 2018/19 Ukraine exported a record 50 million tonnes of grains.

Grains, vegetable oils and oilseeds dominate Ukraine's agricultural exports.