Dmitry Rylko, General Director of the Institute of Agricultural Market Research (IKAR), said that China could break a record in Russian flour purchases in the current agricultural year (started in July 2023). His words lead the way TASS.
While China purchased approximately 125 thousand tons of flour from Russia in the period between July and January, this figure was 80 thousand tons in the entire last season. The expert predicts that the figure will increase further at the end of the agricultural year and most likely the 2019-2020 record of 138 thousand tons will be broken.
Russia has sent a total of over 630 thousand tons of flour abroad for sale since the beginning of the season.
Before that, head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Dmitry Patrushev statedHe said Russia was not interested in the grain agreement. The minister noted that the country has other opportunities for grain sales.
There was last week named The amount Russia lost due to the grain agreement.
Previously Russia loss largest grain buyer.