Turkey and Egypt remain the largest importers of Russian grain

This information was announced by Anita Milekhina, Director of the St. Petersburg branch of the FSBI Grain Quality Assessment Center, during her speech at the II International Conference Baltic Grain, which took place on September 29 in St. Petersburg. “The geography of Russian grain exports in the 2020/21 agricultural year has not undergone significant changes. The traditional markets for us are the countries of the Middle East (18.6 million tons) and North Africa (11 million tons), which are largely dependent on food imports and see Russia as a reliable partner in this regard. Turkey (8.4 million tons) and Egypt (8.2 million tons) remain the largest importers here. But at the same time, one cannot fail to note Saudi Arabia, which imported a record 2.7 million tons of Russian grain, Tunisia, in the direction of which exports increased sevenfold to 0.7 million tons, and Algeria, which finally imported Russian wheat in the last decade of June (28.5 thousand . T). South Asian ...