Concern "Pokrovsky" began exporting molasses to Israel

Pokrovsky notes the active interest of foreign partners in feed products - they are ready to purchase large quantities of barley, corn for feed, as well as meal, bran, cakes, said Ekaterina Kravchenko, commercial DIRECTOR of Pokrovsky, as quoted by RBC . “Algerian partners plan to use molasses to produce ethyl ALCOHOL for livestock farming, medicine and other industries. We have held a number of successful b2b meetings and are now discussing delivery terms,” she added. Since 2021, the company has shipped about 3 thousand tons of molasses to Asia, Africa and the Middle East using special containers - flexitanks. 

Leading expert of the Institute of Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR) Evgeniy Ivanov said that supplies of molasses to Israel last year were very small. Until 2019/20, ship shipments of molasses were not sent to Israel, only in 2020/21 a small boat (2.7 thousand tons) was sent, however, a season later, shipments again decreased to 414 tons, Ivanov cites data. Among the key buyers of Russian molasses in past seasons, he names  the EU and Turkey. Other buyers accounted for just over 10% of deliveries in 2021/22.

The Pokrovsky concern was registered in the Rostov region in 2004 and includes 35 companies involved in the agricultural business. According to FORBES , the value of the holding's land bank in 2022 amounted to 67.8 billion rubles. The priority investment direction of the Pokrovsky concern is agriculture and processing of agricultural products.

ICAR previously raised its forecast for SUGAR production in the 2023/24 season to 6.8 million tons, which is 300 thousand tons higher than the estimate at the beginning of the season. Sugar exports are estimated at up to 700 thousand tons, pole.rf wrote. “In the 2023/24 season, RUSSIA is successfully returning to all traditional markets accessible by road and rail (1520 mm gauge) - the countries of the former USSR, Mongolia, North Korea, Afghanistan, Serbia. Perhaps Iran will also appear and exports by sea in containers to markets will resume dozens of countries in Eurasia and Africa. Exports of raw sugar by grain hopper trucks to Uzbekistan have already resumed  —4.8 thousand tons were exported in the first half of November,” Ivanov reported then.