The sunflower harvest in Russia for 2024 could amount to 17.25 million tons

The sunflower harvest in Russia, taking into account the regions of Donbass and Novorossiya, will amount to 17.25 million tons in 2024. This was stated in the presentation by Vladimir Petrichenko, General Director of the analytical center "Prozerno", presented at the forum "Grain of Siberia". "Sunflower - 15.8 million tons plus new regions - 1.45 million tons," the presentation says. Thus, 17.25 million tons of sunflower will be harvested (last year's figures were 17.253 million tons excluding new regions). According to Petrichenko, the export of Russian sunflower oil this season is projected at 4.8 million tons. At the same time, he emphasized that there is currently a positive trend on the sunflower oil market, since the previously accumulated reserves of this product were depleted due to ...