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Russia’s Agroexport Centre has stated that Russia has the potential to increase dried lentil exports to Turkiye to values of US$150 million by 2030. Russia’s main competitors on the Turkish lentil market are Canada, Kazakhstan and Australia.
Russian lentil exports to Turkiye fell to US$76.1 million last year from US$100.6 million in 2023, with exports by volume dropping to 95,300 tonnes from 131,600 tonnes, the Centre said, with Russia accounting for 14.7% of Turkish lentil imports by volume in 2024. It now wants to improve competition and take back market share.
Despite the drop in exports, Russia was still the third largest lentil exporter to Turkiye. Canada ranked first with 322,300 tonnes or 49.8% of Turkish imports, although its exports fell 39.2%. Kazakhstan ranked second with a 28% share, as it increased lentil exports to Turkiye by 50% to 180,900 tonnes.
Turkiye imported 646,500 tonnes of lentils worth US$459.8 million in 2024. Red lentils made up 84.4% or 545,800 tonnes of these imports by volume in 2024, being US$349.8 million in value, while green lentils accounted for 15.3% of the total.
Russia could increase lentil exports severalfold if it ramps up production and significantly improves the quality of its lentils, the report cites the head of Russian Pulses Analytics, Sergei Pluzhnikov as saying. This is because “Turkiye is willing to pay for quality and expand the pool of its suppliers in the event of a shortage,” he said, adding that the country sometimes even imports from Australia.
The report also said that trade in agricultural products between Russia and Turkiye shrank by 25.9% to about US$5.3 billion in 2024, as Russian exports to Turkiye fell 34.8% to US$3.4 billion while imports from Turkiye slipped 1.8% to US$1.9 billion.
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