Wheat

96.5 Million tone of wheat - this is the planned volume of wheat harvest in India. To achieve this goal, the area allocated for wheat seeding was significantly increased to 31.3 million hectares, which is even more than the average five-year figure (30.4 million hectares). India was already a champion in wheat production, namely in 2014, when the harvest amounted to 95.8 million tons.

Last Friday, a meeting was held between representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia and the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil, at which the state and prospects of development of cooperation in the agricultural sector were discussed. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Brazil has expressed interest in importing Russian wheat as soon as all phytosanitary issues are resolved.

In 2016, the volume of wheat imports to Azerbaijan amounted to 1.6 million tons, an increase of 18.2% compared with the same indicator in 2015, the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan as of February 20 reported. According to statistics, the total value of imported wheat in the country amounted to about $ 295.02 million (0.6% less).

Russia has sufficient volumes of high-quality wheat to fully meet domestic needs in the bakery industry, said First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Dzhambulat Hatuov. Recall that in 2016 in Russia a record wheat harvest was collected in the last 6 years.