On May 13, 2015, Russia held the regular stock exchange trading within frames of public grain purchasing interventions, and purchased 29.565 thsd tonnes of wheat of the harvest-2014 (from the general proposed volume of 80.595 thsd tonnes) at the sum of 289.872 mln RUR, declared the press-service of National Mercantile Exchange CJSC.
In particular, the fund purchased 19.98 thsd tonnes of 3-grade wheat (from the proposed volume of 64.665 thsd tonnes), 8.235 thsd tonnes of 4-grade wheat (from the proposed volume of 10.665 thsd tonnes), and 1.35 thsd tonnes of 5-grade wheat (from the proposed volume of 5.265 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 – 9918.9 RUR/t;
- 4-grade wheat – 8687.5 RUR/t;
- 5-grade wheat – 8340.5 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 849.805 thsd tonnes of grains at the general sum of 7.044 bln RUR.
