Flour production this year may decrease.

Flour production this year may amount to 9.4 million tons against 9.9 million tons in 2024, said Igor Sviridenkov, president of the Russian Union of Flour and Cereal Enterprises (SMKP) at the XXIII International Business Conference "Mill-2025." Specifically, wheat flour production may decrease from 9.67 million tons to 8.77 million tons, while rye flour will decrease from 500 thousand tons to 470 thousand tons. According to the union's estimates, 1.85 million tons of cereals will be produced against 1.9 million tons a year earlier. Despite external challenges, economic difficulties, and the pandemic that swept the world, flour and cereal enterprises successfully fulfill the task of providing consumers with products in the necessary volumes and, importantly, at affordable prices, the expert emphasized. "In recent years, another important task has been added to this: since 2022, we have been steadily increasing exports. The country's leadership has set a goal to increase the ...