Since July 1, the Russian Federation has reduced grain exports by 12% to almost 7 million tons

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. 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 ...