Russia will gradually resume rice groats exports

Russia is interested in exporting value-added products, particularly rice groats, and therefore exports will gradually open up depending on production volumes. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev during the All-Russian Grain Forum. Regarding the export of unmilled rice, it is not planned to be opened, since, according to Patrushev, even last year's record harvest (about 1.2 million tons) was insufficient to fully load the country's processing capacities (about 1.5 million tons). The day before, the head of the commodity distribution infrastructure department of the Agricultural Market Regulation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sergei Smirnov, announced during the forum that from 2026, the department plans to develop a clear and transparent mechanism for determining the rice export quota, Interfax reports. "The quota volume will be calculated as 60% of the difference between the actual gross rice harvest in each specific year and the volume of 1.1 ...