From April 1 to April 10, shipments of wheat for export from Russia increased 3 times
Russia
Published Apr 13, 2023
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From April 1 to April 10, the Russian Federation shipped 2.196 million tons of grain for export, which is 2.6 times more than in the same period last year, follows from the monitoring of the Russian Grain Union.
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Elena Tyurina, director of the union's analytical department, told Interfax that wheat shipments tripled to 1.95 million tons from 649.7 thousand tons a year earlier. Corn shipped 168.7 thousand tons (an increase of 32.1%), barley - 76.2 thousand tons (1.5 times). “Thus, the growth rate of export shipments in the first ten days of April remained. The trend of the current season is also the growth in sales of Russian wheat to new markets, to the markets of countries where it was not sent at the beginning of April last year,” said Tyurina. “Moreover, Saudi Arabia, which did not buy our wheat at the beginning of April last year, this year it came in second place among its major buyers." According to monitoring data, from April 1 to 10, 219.4 thousand tons of wheat were shipped to Saudi Arabia. In addition, the top 5 major importers, which began purchases in April, are closed by Libya (63.3 thousand tons). Pakistan sent 59.8 thousand tons, Tanzania - 54.2 thousand tons, Yemen - 53.9 ...
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