The Russian Federation exported 11.5 million tons of grain products in the current agricultural year

Russia

Published Sep 15, 2021

Tridge summary

Russia in 2021/22 agricultural year reached record volumes of grain and grain products export, informs the correspondent of KazakhZerno.kz with reference to the materials of the Center for Grain Quality Assessment. So, as of September 9, taking into account shipments to the EAEU states, Russian grain exporters delivered 11.5 million tons of grain products, including, in fact, 10.8 million tons of grain and leguminous crops.

Original content

In the current marketing year, Russian grain is exported to the markets of 122 countries of the world, and, as experts emphasize, this is a record figure for the current period. It is noteworthy that 19 states bought the maximum volumes for themselves in the Russian Federation, and 64 countries increased imports in comparison with last year. According to the Center, most of the Russian grain is consumed by the states of the Middle East (4.7 million tons), where Turkey is usually the leader in purchases. This country has now reached high rates of imports: mainly, it concerns barley (0.4 million tons), soybean meal, lentils, rice, etc. But Saudi Arabia reduced purchases of barley, but at the same time increased imports of wheat (0.3 million tons). Armenia, in turn, began to buy more barley, reducing wheat imports. Interesting traffic and market in Africa. The states of the African continent purchased 3.1 million tons of grain from the Russian Federation. At the same time, the North ...

Source: Kazakh-zerno