India has purchased more sunflower oil from Ukraine than from Russia for the first time.

This is reported by APK-Inform. Thus, out of 200,000 tons of sunflower oil imported by India, 39% came from Ukrainian products, while the volume of purchases of Russian oil amounted to 49,000 tons, or 25%. Previously, for a long time, the share of Ukrainian oil in monthly supplies ranged from 13% to 34%, but did not exceed the volume of purchases by Indian importers of Russian sunflower oil, which in recent seasons has been leading in the Indian market. However, in the second half of the current season, Russian plants reduced the production of sunflower oil due to low profitability, which significantly reduced the supply in foreign markets. In addition, the export duty on this product from October 2024 for the first time in a long time was not zero and increased over several months in a ...