News
08.10.2009
Russia exported nearly 9.8 mln tonnes of grains during 8 months of 2009
According to the Federal customs service of the Russian Federation, during January-August of 2009, Russia exported 9.76 mln tonnes of wheat and meslin at the general sum of 1.61 bln USD, an increase of 2.5 times compared to the same period of the previous year.
At the same time, during the same period, Russia supplied 8.66 mln tonnes of wheat at the sum of 1.41 bln USD to far-abroad countries, and 1.1 mln tonnes – to the CIS countries (196 mln USD).
According to the customs data, during January-August of 2009, the share of exports of foodstuffs from Russia to far-abroad countries totaled 2.7% (in January-August of 2008 – 0.8%). The cost of foodstuff supply volumes increased by 1.8 times compared to January-August of 2008, and the physical volumes – by 3 times, at the expense of wheat, barley, sunflower seed and sunflower oil exports.
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