Ukraine: In March the production of malt in Ukraine grew by 11%.

In March 2006, according to the statistical data, Ukrainian enterprises produced 34.3 thousand tonnes of malt, which is a higher output level by 11% than that of February 2006.

In comparison with March 2005 the volume of malt production increased by 5.3 thousand tonnes (by 18%).

For the 9 months of 2005/06 the malt production in Ukraine was of 281.7 thousand tonnes. In the same period of 2004/05 there were produced 222 thousand tonnes of malt.

26 April, 2006