On March 31, 2015, Russia held the regular stock exchange trading within frames of public grain purchasing interventions, and purchased 17.01 thsd tonnes of grains of the harvest-2014 (from the general proposed volume of 19.845 thsd tonnes) at the sum of 167.697 mln RUR, declared the press-service of National Mercantile Exchange CJSC.
In particular, the fund purchased 13.095 thsd tonnes of 3-grade wheat (from the proposed volume of 14.445 thsd tonnes), 1.215 thsd tonnes of 4-grade wheat (all volume put up for sale), and 2.7 thsd tonnes of 5-grade wheat (from the proposed volume of 3.915 thsd tonnes).
The trades on feed barley and milling rye were canceled.
The weighted average prices of the grains sold to the intervention fund were as follows:
- 3-grade wheat – 9626.3 RUR/t;
- 4-grade wheat – 8041.5 RUR/t;
- 5-grade wheat – 8035.7 RUR/t;
- 1-grade rye – 5055.6 RUR/t;
- feed barley – 5148.8 RUR/t.
Since the beginning of the stock exchange trading (September 30, 2013) the intervention fund already purchased 490.3 thsd tonnes of grains at the general sum of 3.528 bln RUR.
