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The Russian Agriculture Ministry’s Agroexport centre has said that Russia boosted exports of agricultural products to Africa 19% year-on-year, valued at over US$7 billion in 2024, shipping products to 45 countries on the continent. Egypt was the largest buyer, increasing imports from Russia 21% in value terms. Egypt is a leading importer of Russian wheat, and also imports sunflower and soybean oil, legumes, flax seeds, molasses, yeast, and other products from Russia.
Other big gains were agriculture exports to Kenya, up 33%; and Tunisia, up 28%.
Russia’s principal agricultural exports to Africa are grain crops, namely wheat, barley and corn, which account for 87% of supplies in value terms. African countries are also among the significant purchasers of oil and fat products, meat and fish. Shipments of dairy products also increased exponentially last year.
Igor Pavensky, Head of Agricultural Market Analyses at Rusagrotrans agricultural logistics company, said that Africa is increasing its share of wheat imports from Russia head was quoted as saying that African countries already account for over 50% of the total volume of wheat exports from Russia in the current agricultural season : July 2024 to June 2025. “From July to February, 18 million tonnes were imported. The increase has occurred with a rise in supplies to Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, as well as to Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia and other countries. In the 2023-2024 season, 21.2 million tonnes of wheat were imported to African countries, which was 38% of the overall volume of wheat exports from Russia and became a record high. In the previous season of 2022-2023, 17.6 million tonnes of wheat were imported to the continent, and in 2021-2022, 10.6 million tonnes.”
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