Russian wheat exports to Bangladesh increased 2.5 times in a year

Published 2024년 8월 12일

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Russian wheat exports to Bangladesh for the 2023-2024 agricultural year significantly increased, reaching a record 3.5 million tons, which nearly doubled the previous year's exports and accounted for over half of Bangladesh's total crop imports. Additionally, Russia's exports of peas and mustard seeds to Bangladesh saw substantial increases, with peas up 44 times and mustard seeds over 10 times. The first exports of barley and corn, along with vegetable oils, also showed promise in the Bangladeshi market, indicating a positive trend in agricultural trade between the two countries.

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Russian wheat exports to Bangladesh in the 2023-2024 agricultural year (July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024) increased 2.5 times compared to the previous agricultural year - to a record 3.5 million tons, said Ruslan Khasanov, Director of the Grain Quality Assessment Center (GQAC). "In 2023-2024, Russia exported a record 3.5 million tons of wheat to Bangladesh, which accounted for more than half of the total import of this crop to the country during this period. Compared with the previous agricultural year, the volume of wheat exports from our country to Bangladesh increased almost 2.5 times, in 2022-2023 they amounted to 1.4 million tons," Khasanov said, as quoted by TASS by the press service of the center. The director of the GQAC noted that a significant increase in supplies from Russia to Bangladesh also affected other agricultural crops. For example, pea exports in the 2023-2024 agricultural year increased almost 44 times, to 206.4 thousand ...

Source: Milknews