Kenya is a promising market for increasing wheat exports from Russia

Published Nov 25, 2024

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Kenya is emerging as a significant market for Russian wheat exports, with plans to import 2.6 million tons in the 2024/25 agricultural year. Russia has played a crucial role in supporting Kenya's food security, with wheat exports to Kenya rising from 1.1 million tons in the 2022/23 season to 1.5 million tons in the 2023/24 season. By mid-November of the current season, Russia had exported 820.7 thousand tons of wheat to Kenya, meeting 60% of the country's wheat import needs, even though Kenya represents only 4% of Russia's total wheat export deliveries.

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Kenya is a promising market for increasing the volume of Russian wheat exports. This was reported to TASS by Ruslan Khasanov, Director of the Federal Center for Assessment of Safety and Quality of Agricultural Products. "Kenya remains a promising market for increasing the volume of Russian wheat exports. In the 2024/25 agricultural year, the level of import volumes of this grain crop is estimated at 2.6 million tons," Khasanov said. According to the expert, Russia has traditionally been an important strategic partner ensuring Kenya's food security, including Russian wheat exports that have been showing steady growth in recent years. Thus, wheat export volumes in the 2022/23 agricultural season increased to 1.1 million tons, in the 2023/24 agricultural season - to 1.5 million tons. At the same time, in the current ...

Source: Kvedomosti