Russian salt market in 2016 rose 4.9% to 2015 and reached 5.8 mln t. according to the report "Rusprodsoyuz", this is the highest capacity of the market over the past six years. In 2014 and 2015, its volume amounted to 5.6 million tons, in 2013 is 5.5 million tonnes.

Largely due to a record increase in the food supply of salt, which last year increased by 17% to 1.3 million tonnes, the remaining 4.5 million tons were for industrial salt (plus 2.2%).

"Rusprodsoyuz" links the expansion of exports of edible salt with an increase in its consumption by the domestic food industry, particularly meat processors, and manufacturers of instant foods and seasonings, developing the production in 2016 by 4-7%. In 2010-2013, the market salt fell from 1.29 to 1.03 million tonnes, over the next two years showed growth of no more than 7% per year.

The share of domestic salt in the total volume of resources in 2016 was 65.5%, which is 2.5% higher than in 2015. The Russian manufacturers have put 3.8 million tonnes of salt. The import of salt by 1.4%, amounting to 2 million tonnes, with the bulk of production last year was from Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, China and Azerbaijan.

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