Main points
- In the 2025/26 season, pea production in Ukraine increased to 653 thousand tons, 40% more than last year.
- Exports for the first half of the marketing year amounted to only 160 thousand tons, which is 34% less than the previous year, due to reduced demand from India, Turkey and slow development of exports to China.
Peas are hard to sell / Photo Freepik
The 2025/26 season was a controversial one for the Ukrainian pea market: record production volumes did not bring the expected increase in exports. Instead, an excess supply within the country increased the pressure on prices.
Why has marketing peas become such a difficult task?
In the 2025/26 season, the Ukrainian pea market faced a paradoxical situation, reports UkrAgroConsult. This year, a record harvest turned into serious difficulties with sales.
According to analysts, pea production at the end of the season increased to 653 thousand tons, which is 40 percent more than the previous year and is the highest figure in the last 7 years. At the same time, export rates in the first half of the marketing year were unusually low.
Thus, in the period from July to December 2025, only 160 thousand tons of peas were exported from Ukraine, which is 34 percent less than a year earlier. This is about a third of the total export potential of the season, while in previous years 60-70 percent of the volumes were sold by the middle of the season. This situation creates a surplus of products on the domestic market and puts additional pressure on prices.
Pay attention! Experts explain that the key sales directions – India and Turkey – have actually dropped out of the market, and the expected exports to China have not yet become massive. Against this background, in late autumn, export prices dropped to 260-270 US dollars per ton on CPT Odessa terms, which became the minimum level over the past year and is holding back sales activity.
Export prices for food wheat in Ukraine have gone up after a long pause
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Export prices for food wheat in Ukraine increased by 1–3 USD per ton due to increased interest from buyers from Egypt and Turkey and weakening competition from Russian wheat.
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Further price growth is being restrained by war risks, high global grain supply, active sales in the EU, a strengthening dollar, and lower world oil prices.