Tajikistan, Poland and Turkey started buying Novosibirsk grain in 2021

For 11 months of 2021, the volume of direct export deliveries of grain and products of its processing from the Novosibirsk Region amounted to 590 thousand tons, a quarter more than a year earlier, and the number of grain importing countries increased to 20.

In 2021, Tajikistan, Poland and Turkey began to buy lentils, flax and wheat from our region, respectively. In turn, the UK, Turkmenistan and Lithuania resumed imports of peas, wheat and buckwheat interrupted since 2019.

More than half of export grain shipments from the NSO still account for wheat. At the same time, this year neighboring Kazakhstan purchased the largest volumes of this crop: 211 thousand tons against 124 thousand in 2020. The structure of grain exports to China has changed: in previous years, the main importer of rapeseed, in 2021, China bought mainly flax, barley, sunflower seeds and buckwheat.

According to the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for NSO, now there are almost 15 items in the nomenclature of direct export of grain, legumes and oilseeds from the Novosibirsk region. In terms of export volumes, wheat is the leader - 330 thousand tons for 11 months of the year. Over 92,000 tons of peas were shipped, over 45,000 tons of barley, rye (10,000 tons), buckwheat (7,000 tons), oats (3,000 tons), lentils, triticale, and millet. Of the oilseeds, flax occupies the largest share in the export list: 43 thousand tons, followed by rapeseed (21.5 thousand tons), sunflower (19.5 thousand tons), soybeans (6 thousand tons). 11 thousand tons of grain processing products were delivered.