Expert warns of decline in interest in rye among farmers and millers in Russia

It is possible that someday rye bread will remain only in Russian restaurants, he said Moscow. November 26. INTERFAX.RU - Russia will reduce the rye harvest this year to 1.3 million tons from 1.7 million tons in 2023, interest in this crop is declining. In 2002, the harvest of this grain crop was 7.1 million tons, in subsequent years it fluctuated from 2.4 million tons in 2020 to 1.4 million tons in 2019, according to a presentation by the Russian Union of Flour and Cereals Enterprises. "This schedule causes a feeling of caution coupled with disappointment. This suggests that if we exclude seeds, industrial processing, that is, what is used for technical purposes, then 1 million tons of rye is the maximum that millers can count on," said the president of the union, Igor Sviridenko, at the XIX business conference "Modern Bread Baking - 2024". At the same time, he noted that both producers and millers do not believe that there is a shortage of this agricultural crop, "if by this we ...