Since July 1, the Russian Federation has reduced grain exports by 12% to almost 7 million tons
Wheat
Russia
Published Aug 24, 2022
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From July 1 to August 21 this year, Russia shipped 6 million 962 thousand tons of grain for export, which is 12% less than in the same period last season, according to the monitoring of the Russian Grain Union. Elena Tyurina, director of the Union's Analytical Department, told Interfax that shipments of wheat also decreased by 12%, to 5,928,000 tons, barley - by 11.6%, to 797,000 tons. At the same time, shipments of corn increased by 7.4% to 179 thousand tons.
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According to her, during this period, the trend to reduce the number of crops that are exported has continued. "This season (started on July 1, 2022 - IF) we are exporting 10 main types of crops, while last season in the same period there were 24 of them. So far, oats, rice, durum wheat, rye, seed corn," she explained. The number of buyer countries is also decreasing. “So far, wheat is supplied to 24 countries, although there were 54 last season in the same period,” she said. “There are no purchases yet, for example, from Tanzania, South Africa, Congo, Nigeria, which were major buyers a year ago. More than 500,000 tons were shipped to Nigeria during this period of the last season, 166,000 tons to Tanzania, and more than 100,000 tons to South Africa. According to Tyurina, traditional partners remain the main buyers. "Egypt has taken the first place, where more than 1.18 million tons of wheat have already been shipped since the beginning of the season, which is almost 30% more than ...
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