The European Union has sharply reduced purchases of vegetable oils from Russia

Over the four months of the current agricultural year (July-October calendar year), EU countries have reduced imports of vegetable oils from Russia by almost 7 times - to 1,648 tons. This was reported by the news agency "Grain On-Line" with reference to data from the European Commission. Most of them were rapeseed - 1,108 tons, another 400 were sunflower. The remaining insignificant volumes are accounted for by soybean. For the same period of the last agricultural year (July-October 2023), 11,512 tons were supplied to the EU in exact figures - 10,523 and 922, respectively. The volumes of sunflower oil supplies from Russia are usually less than other types, since, mainly, it is used for self-sufficiency of the domestic market. At the same time, rapeseed supplies, on the contrary, are significantly larger due to its lesser popularity among the population. In the case of ...