Prices of Bulgaria’s high quality wheat and barley for delivery in July are more than 20% up year-on-year due to increased export demand. “Prices rose because of big interest for exports to drought-stricken countries like Ukraine,” a trader at an international grain company’s office in Sofia said. High quality July milling wheat traded at BGN 160-170 ($79-84) per tonne FOB Black Sea ports, with lower quality wheat trading at BGN 145-150. Exports of July feed barley were sealed at BGN 125-135 per tonne without transport costs, compared with BGN 110 last year. Bulgaria’s wheat exports were expected to rise to 600,000 tonnes in 2000/01 (July-June), with barley exports jumping to 30,000 tonnes, traders said. Exports to Ukraine had already increased. Bulgaria’s spot wheat prices rose from levels prevailing at the beginning of June due to increased demand from local mills as the State Reserve had finished selling cheap high quality wheat from its stocks