For the 2016 season from January to August, the Russian Federation has increased the export of wheat and meslin by 44.25% to 13,967 million tons compared to the same period of the previous season.

Most grain was sold in foreign countries: 95,1% (+49,61%) of the total volume that is approximately 13,278 million tons. CIS has deportirovali our products in the amount of 689,2 thousand tons, which is , unfortunately, below last year's figures by 14.66%.

If we consider the volume of deliveries in money terms, over the eight months they had increased to 2,366 billion, or by 21.47%. Of this amount of 2.25 billion dollars were received from foreign countries, from CIS countries - 116.6 billion dollars.

This increase in exports is due to the abolition of export duties, introduced in 2015 to stabilize the domestic grain market. From September 23 of this year, the fee to zero until July 1, 2018, which gave new impetus to the development of export relationships in terms of expectations of record harvest of grain in Russia.