In January-March, Russia exported 7.8 mln tonnes of cereal crops - Rosstat

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In January-March of 2016, Russia increased cereal crops export volumes by 44.9% compared with the same period last year - to 7.81 mln tonnes, reported the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) on May 25.

According to the announcement, in the reporting period wheat and meslin traditionally formed the basis of grain export supplies – 5.397 mln tonnes, up 75.1% compared with the same period last year. Also, the exports of Russian corn grew by 90.5%, to 1.633 mln tonnes, and sunflower seed – up 3%, to 29.6 thsd tonnes.

At the same time, in the first quarter of 2016 there was observed some decline of barley exports - down 45.2%, to 683 thsd tonnes, and rice - down 41.3%, to 43.1 thsd tonnes.

As for the export volumes of other plant growing commodities from Russia, the foreign supplies of wheat and wheat-rye flour increased by 18.5% - to 55.7 thsd tonnes.

Also, in the reporting period Russia increased the import volumes of palm oil and its fractions by 15.6% compared with the same period in 2015, to 233 thsd tonnes.

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