Russia: The Saratov region is the leader among the regions of the Volga Federal District in terms of reserves of grains and oilseeds

The region contains 53.7% of the district reserves of sunflower oil, 43.5% of pasta, 33.3% of oilseeds, 21.9% of wheat flour, 19.4% of grain crops According to the departmental monitoring data of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, as of December 1, agricultural producers, as well as elevators and grain receiving enterprises in the Saratov region had 5,048.6 thousand tons of grain and leguminous crops of the new harvest and carryover stocks of the harvest of previous years. Including feed wheat reserves amounted to 1,688.6 thousand tons (33.4% of the reserve volume), food wheat - 1,482.5 thousand tons (29.4%), barley - 726.5 thousand tons ( 14.4%), corn - 681.8 thousand tons (13.5%), rye - 452.3 thousand tons (9.0%), buckwheat - 16.9 thousand tons (0.3%) . In addition, 1,743.3 thousand tons of oilseeds were stored in warehouses. Of these, the largest were sunflower reserves - 1,664.0 thousand tons (95.4% of the total volume). Soybeans in storage were 77.9 thousand tons (4.5%), ...