Russian companies are increasing exports of wheat to Algeria that resumed in June after a five-year break, Rosselkhoznadzor said in a report.
"The Russian Federation continues to increase wheat exports to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, whose import potential exceeds 7 million tons," the report said.
According to the agency, last week, a shipment of new harvest wheat weighing more than 30 thousand tons was sent to Algeria from the port of Taman to the OAIC (Algerian Interprofessional Office of Cereals). Currently, another vessel is under loading in the port of Taman for the subsequent export of a new shipment of wheat to Algeria.
Altogether in 2020-2021, Russia exported to Algeria 79 thousand tons of grain and its products, including barley, wheat, chickpeas, flax seeds, oat flakes and buckwheat, millet.
The total export of grain
The agency also reported that, according to the subordinate Rosselkhoznadzor FGBI “Grain Quality Assessment Center”, in 2021-2022 Russia exported 11.5 million tons of grain and its products, including 10.8 million tons of cereals and leguminous crops. Domestic grain products are exported to 122 importer countries. Thus 64 states increased the purchases in comparison with the similar period of the last year and 19 showed the maximum demand.
The largest volume of goods was exported to the Middle East (4.7 million tons), where the main importer is traditionally Turkey, which currently shows a record rate of procurement mainly due to barley (0.4 million tons). The country also imports significant volumes of soybean press cake, lentils, safflower meal and rice grits. Saudi Arabia increased its purchases of Russian wheat (0.3 million tons) against the background of declining barley imports.
African countries imported 3.1 million tons of grain and its products. It is worth noting the increased interest in Russian wheat from North Africa (Libya, Algeria), West Africa (Burkina Faso, Togo), East Africa (Tanzania, Malawi, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Burundi), Central Africa (Congo, Angola, Congo Republic, Gabon) and South Africa (Namibia). After a break, exports of corn and lentils to Algeria, peas and coriander to Egypt, wheat to Zimbabwe, wheat flour to Benin, and millet to Libya resumed.
Exports to Asia amounted to 2.6 million tons. Deliveries to South Asia (1.9 million tons) and Central Asia (0.5 million tons) increased. Here it is worth noting a significant increase in Kazakhstan's demand for wheat (0.3 million tons), rye, malt, semolina and others.
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Based on materials from TASS