🔔 The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine has approved new minimum export prices for agricultural products for May 2025. The relevant Order No. 1736 was signed on 12 May. This is a continuation of the export guarantee regime for key Ukrainian agricultural exports.

📌 Subject to the established prices:
✔️ cereals (wheat, barley, corn, rye, oats, meslin),
✔️ oilseeds (rapeseed, sunflower seeds, soya beans),
✔️ oils (sunflower, rapeseed, soybean),
✔️ makukha,
✔️ as well as niche positions: honey and nuts
🔎 Why are minimum export prices set?
This is not a "price directive", but an export control mechanism that helps:
✅ Avoid dumping in foreign markets,
✅ Prevent the shadow export of products at low prices,
✅ Ensure foreign exchange earnings for the state,
✅ Maintain transparency in foreign economic contracts.

📈 An analytical view: what does this mean for farmers?
✔️Контракти need to be revised: all export agreements concluded below the minimum price may be declared invalid for customs clearance.
✔️Фокус for quality: foreign buyers are willing to pay for quality products, so low quality + high minimum price = lower demand.
✔️Трейдери may become more cautious, which means that farms should pay more attention to price justification in their offers.

📌 Recommendations for agricultural producers:
✅ Check for minimum price updates by the 10th of each month - this is critical for shipment planning.
✅ Negotiate carefully with traders - defend the price not lower than the minimum set.
✅ Document the quality of your products (acts, certificates) to protect against price manipulation during export.

🧭 In wartime, protecting the national market is not only about weapons, but also about the economy. Minimum export prices are a form of economic defence that must be justified, adaptive and transparent.