In 2025, Ukraine exported agricultural products worth over 22 billion euros. This is 8.8 percent less than the previous year. Despite this decline, agriculture still accounted for 56.1 percent of Ukraine's total goods exports.
A notable development is the decrease in agricultural exports to the European Union. The EU share fell to 47.5 percent in 2025, after having been above 50 percent in previous years. The value of exports to the EU amounted to around 10 billion euros.
At the same time, Ukraine's imports of agricultural products increased. In 2025, purchases rose to 8.75 billion dollars, the highest level in five years. More than 53 percent of these imports came from EU countries.
From the European perspective, trade flows also changed. From January through October 2025, the EU exported agricultural products worth 3.54 billion euros to Ukraine, a 20 percent increase compared to the same period the previous year. Ukraine was thus the country with the strongest growth in EU deliveries.
In the same period, the EU imported 8.65 billion euros worth of agricultural products from Ukraine. This was 21 percent less than a year earlier. Despite this decline, Ukraine remained the fifth largest supplier of agricultural products to the European Union.
Across the EU as a whole, agricultural exports increased to 199.4 billion euros, while imports rose to 157.39 billion euros. These figures show that mutual dependence between the EU and Ukraine remains significant, but is shifting.
In the EU Agricultural Outlook 2025-2035, the European Commission expects European agriculture and horticulture to face higher costs and greater uncertainty. Production remains possible, but growth slows due to climate stress, more expensive production inputs, and stricter regulations.
According to Brussels, agriculture increasingly relies on labor productivity: fewer people, more technology, and scaling up. Sectors such as poultry, eggs, and cheese are growing, while beef and pork, sugar, and wine are contracting. The affordability and availability of energy, feed, and fertilizers are decisive factors for future agricultural production.