South Korea imported 8,200 tonnes of barley from Russia in January, up 9.3-fold compared to the figure from January 2025, according to Seoul’s customs statistics. The export value of these supplies increased from US$215,000 in January 2022 to US$2 million in January 2025. This means that Russia is now the second-largest supplier of barley to […]
Russia expanded its exports of agricultural products to North Korea in 2025 with beer, rapeseed oil, and tobacco products, the Agroexport federal center has stated. Previously, these products had not been supplied to the North Korean market. In particular, beer exports amounted to around 30 tonnes worth US$20,000, rapeseed oil exports stood at over 310 […]
Russia’s Sibagro Group plans to begin exporting pork to the North Korean market in Q1 this year, the company has announced. Based in Belgorod, near Ukraine, Sibagro has passed Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) certification and obtained the right to export meat products and offal to North Korea. Sibagro plans to expand […]
Russia’s Ezocm, a Yekaterinburg-based, non-ferrous metal processing company, is to enter the Vietnamese market, according to Denis Repin, its executive director. The Vietnamese market is of interest to the company due to the growing demand for products in the electronics, medical, and chemical industries, as well as a shortage of local production of high-purity metals, […]
Russia exported 118,000 tonnes of fish and seafood to Japan, up 9% in 2025, valued at US$952 million (up 11%) compared to the previous year, according to Japanese customs data. The Russian Fish Union said that “Supplies of pollock roe increased 3% to 22,000 tonnes and decreased 3% in value to US$109 million. Japan is […]
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Russia boosted crustacean exports by 10% year-on-year to 91,000 tonnes in physical terms, and increased revenues by 13% to over US$2 billion in 2025, according to the Russian Agriculture Ministry’s Agroexport center. The top 5 importers included China at US$1.2 billion, South Korea at around US$750 million, Japan at over US$33 million, Vietnam at over […]
Russia exported dairy products worth more than US$500 million in 2025, with supplies going to almost 100 countries worldwide, the head of the Agroexport federal center Ilya Ilyushin, said at the third forum of dairy industry leaders in Moscow on Tuesday (January 20). The final sales volumes are likely to be higher, as the December […]
Russian fertilizer giant Uralchem has completed the delivery of 30,000 metric tons of potash to Bangladesh as a humanitarian gesture, the company announced on Monday (January 19). The donation was conducted under the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). This is the company’s seventh donation in a series of humanitarian deliveries to developing countries since […]
Russian exports of grain and processed products from Primorye Krai in the Russian Far East reached 1.4 million tonnes in 2025, with the largest amounts registered for supplies to China, according to the Primorye Interregional Department of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor). A total of 281,100 tonnes were registered for export […]
Russia boosted exports of soybean oil to South Korea 3.2-fold year-on-year to 5,500 tonnes in 2025 from 1,700 tonnes in 2024, setting an all-time high figure for supplies that began to this market in 2017, South Korea’s customs service has said. The value of shipments increased to US$6.4 million from US$1.8 million in 2024. Russia […]
South Korea tripled its wheat imports from Russia to 202,700 tonnes in 2025, compared with 67,750 tonnes in 2024, the Korea Customs Service has reported. Imports of Russian corn increased to 323,700 tonnes, compared with 227,650 tonnes in 2024; however, Russian barley imports fell by almost 80% to 3,730 tonnes from 15,170 tonnes in 2024. […]
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