In the first half of the year, the growth of exports of rapeseed oil from Russia amounted to almost 56%

Over the past five years, the export of this oil has more than tripled, both in volume and value. In the first half of 2021, Russia exported $ 376.8 million worth of rapeseed oil, which is 55.9% more than in the same period last year, the Agroexport center reported. In physical terms, supplies increased by 18.4% to 342.1 thousand tons. In 2020, exports amounted to 687.5 thousand tons, which is 2.9% higher than the level of the previous year. The main buyer of Russian rapeseed oil is China, which accounted for 43% of supplies in value terms in 2020, as well as Norway (29.8%), Latvia (9.5%) and Lithuania (7%). As noted in the Center, vegetable oils are one of the key positions in the structure of agricultural exports in Russia. Despite the fact that among them the largest volume of supplies traditionally falls on sunflower oil, rapeseed oil is in the top 3 products of the fat and oil industry supplied to foreign markets. Over the past five years, the export of this oil has more than ...