Russia increased grain shipments for export by 13.4% from August 1 to 20

According to the monitoring of the Russian Grain Union, shipments began to grow last week and in general for the period from August 1 to August 20 amounted to 4.4 million tons, which is 13.4% more than in the same period last year (3.9 million tons) . As Elena Tyurina, director of the analytical department of the union, told Interfax, 3.8 million tons of wheat were shipped, which is 17% more than last year (3.25 million tons). "The active growth in wheat sales allows us to expect that exports in August will exceed 5 million tons. Last August it was 4.5 million tons, the record was August 2021/2022 of the agricultural year, when exports exceeded 6 million tons of wheat," she said. Tyurina also said that shipments of barley since the beginning of the month decreased by 4.6%, to 540 thousand tons, corn - increased by 1.7%, to 79.5 thousand tons. According to her, most of all wheat was shipped to Egypt from 1 to 20 August - 358,000 tons. But this is 62% less than a year ago. In second ...