Production and export of safflower in Russia

Which countries buy Russian safflower and A. V. Ovsyannikov, Director of the Volgograd branch of the Center for Grain Quality Assessment, spoke about the main advantages of the crop In the Russian Federation, safflower is grown in three regions: Volgograd, Rostov and Saratov. In the Volgograd region, safflower ranks fourth in terms of the sown area of oilseeds. An important advantage of this crop is that it has a developed root system, which is able to extract moisture from the deep layers of the soil, and the structure of the vegetative mass allows the resulting moisture to be spent very sparingly. In 2022, 6.7 thousand tons of safflower were exported from the Volgograd region to the EU countries, China, and Japan. It should be noted that the main consumers of Volgograd safflower are the EU countries - Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium. Employees of the Volgograd branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Center for Grain Quality Assessment" carried out work to assess the ...