The United Arab Emirates became the main importer of flour from Ukraine following the results of six months.

This is evidenced by the data of analysts of APK-Inform.

The UAE purchased 52.7 thousand tons during this period.

"It is worth noting that shipments of Ukrainian-made wheat flour to the UAE for the first half of the current season exceed purchases for the entire 2018/19 MY and 2017/18 MY - 48 thousand tons and 46 thousand tons, respectively," said APK-Inform analyst "Victoria Rozhko.

In general, 85.9 thousand tons of Ukrainian wheat flour were exported to the Middle East in the first half of 2019/20 MY, the share of the UAE in it was 61%, Palestine with a share of 20% (17.2 thousand tons), the third - Israel, 8% (6.9 thousand tons).

"Thus, according to the results of the first half of 2019/20 MY, the share of the UAE in the total export of wheat flour from Ukraine amounted to 28%, while in July-December 2018/19 MY it was only 7%, and for the same period of 2017/18 MY - 9 %, "added Rozhko.

Source: Ukraine in arabic