By October 24, the Saratov region had collected 6 million 53 thousand tons of grain, which exceeds the region’s needs four times, reports Svetich news agency, citing the press service of the regional Ministry of Agriculture.
More than 14 types of grains and leguminous crops are cultivated in the Saratov region, eight of which are exported abroad. These are wheat, barley, chickpeas, oats, peas, lentils, rye, corn, millet. Of the nine oilseeds, five are exported: flax, mustard, camelina, rapeseed, coriander, and safflower.
Since the beginning of this year, about 2 million tons of grain and products of its processing have already been shipped outside the region, of which more than 900 thousand tons are grain from the new harvest.
The main directions for shipment of new crop grain to the Russian market are Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Volgograd, Rostov, Kaliningrad, Samara, Tambov, Kirov regions, Krasnodar region.
At the same time, the main export crop of the region has been and remains wheat, the geography of shipment of which, despite difficult economic conditions, is expanding. Now the main destinations for wheat export are Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the ports of the Krasnodar Territory, Rostov and Astrakhan regions.