Russia can export up to 30 thousand tons of corn seeds and 10 thousand tons of sunflower seeds

Seed exports can solve the problem of overproduction and balance the market; the potential for supplying Russian corn seeds abroad is estimated at 30 thousand tons, and sunflower seeds at 10 thousand tons. This was stated by the Chairman of the Council of the National Seed Alliance Association Igor Lobach during the Russian Field 2024 forum. According to him, last year the Russian agro-industrial complex faced the problem of overproduction of corn seeds. With the market demand of 85 thousand tons, 90 thousand tons of legal seeds were produced, while there were still about 2 thousand tons of seeds of “unclear origin” in circulation. As follows from his presentation, the surplus of corn seeds for the 2025 sowing season will be 13 thousand tons, and sunflower seeds — 5 thousand tons. At the same time, the potential export of seeds of these crops is estimated by the NSA at 30 and 10 thousand tons, respectively, and for grain crops it is 25 million tons. In addition to sunflower, corn ...