Asian and Middle East countries were the leading buyers of Ukrainian wheat in July, the first month of the new 2018/19 season. Ukraine is among the world’s major wheat exporters and sold a total of 17.2 million tonnes of wheat abroad in the previous 2017/18 season. n July, Ukraine exported a total of 959,960 tonnes of wheat. The data showed that Ukraine exported 103,973 tonnes of wheat to Israel, the leading importer of Ukrainian wheat last month. It also exported 90,650 tonnes of wheat to Philippines, 74,957 tonnes to Egypt and 63,070 to Italy.