Ukrainian rapeseed exports to the European Union (EU) increased by around 6% in 2023/24 to just under 3.2M tonnes, making it the bloc’s leading supplier of the oilseed, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) reports.
Meanwhile, at just under 5.7M tonnes, EU-27 rapeseed imports from non-EU countries dropped by 24% from the 2022/23 total of 7.5M tonnes to 5.7M tonnes, the 19 July report said.
For example, shipments from Australia declined by around 43% to just less than 1.9M tonnes due to a smaller rapeseed harvest, which was down approximately 1.2M tonnes compared to the previous year to 4.9M tonnes.
EU rapeseed imports from Moldova tripled to just under 250,000 tonnes although it was possible a major proportion of that volume originated in Ukraine, according to UFOP.
At 18.3M tonnes, the Canadian harvest in 2023 was larger than in the previous year.
However, the country delivered less than 100,000 tonnes to the EU in 2023/24 – a 59% drop from the previous year – due to increased domestic consumption and exports to the USA, in both cases for biofuel production.
