In January-September, Russia exported over 23.7 mln tonnes of cereal crops - Rosstat

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In January-September of 2016, Russia increased cereal crops export volumes by 18.7% compared with the same period last year - to 23.708 mln tonnes, reported the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) on November 22.

According to the announcement, in the reporting period wheat and meslin traditionally formed the basis of grain export supplies – 17.764 mln tonnes, up 32.9% compared with the same period last year. Also, the exports of Russian corn grew by 41.2%, to 3.4 mln tonnes, rice – up 8.6%, to 146 thsd tonnes, and sunflower seed – up 97.3%, to 89.9 thsd tonnes.

At the same time, during the first nine months of 2016 there was observed some decline of barley exports - down 40.5%, to 2.292 mln tonnes.

As for the export volumes of other plant growing commodities from Russia, the foreign supplies of wheat and wheat-rye flour increased by 5% - to 185 thsd tonnes.

Also, in the reporting period Russia increased the import volumes of palm oil and its fractions by 7.2% compared with the same period in 2015, to 658 thsd tonnes.

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