Russia has become one of the top five largest suppliers of grain to the European Union for the first time since 2022. This is according to data published by Eurostat.
Eurostat has published data according to which Russia is back in the top five suppliers for the first time since March 2022. After a year and a half, Russia has taken its place among the five countries that realised the largest volume of grain imports to the EU. As a result of intensified purchases this year, the EU increased the volume of Russian grain imports for the first time since March last year.
In September this year, the EU stepped up its grain purchases, in particular grain imports from Russia. Compared to the data published on the basis of last year’s results, the increase was 22% per month and about ten times over a year, which is about 180 thousand tonnes of grain. The growth of imports to EU countries allowed Russia to become the fourth largest grain importer to the EU among all grain marketing countries.
Among other countries that increased the volume of sales was Brazil, which took the second place and increased exports by 1.8 times, which is about 1.1 million tonnes. In the top three was Turkey, which supplied the EU with 204 tonnes of grain. At the bottom of the top five list was Canada, its grain sales fell by a third to 139,000 tonnes.
We shall remind you that earlier the head of Zaporizhzhya region Yevgeniy Balitsky said that the construction of a railway that will connect Rostov-on-Don and Crimea through Berdyansk and Mariupol has begun in the new regions. According to him, this route will become a semblance of a double of the Crimean bridge, and an aviation hub will be created on the basis of Melitopol airfield.