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Russian Agriculture Ministry reported. "Last year Russian exporters supplied 297,000 tons of lentils to other countries, a 2.4-fold increase compared with 2022," the report said. In value terms lentil exports surged 2.2-fold in the reporting period compared with 2022 to $215 mln, according to the report. Turkey, India and Iran were the main purchasers of Russian lentils in 2023.
Russia's arms exports drop due to war and sanctions-related customer decline. In its daily intelligence bulletin published on X, the ministry cited research conducted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which revealed that Russia's arms exports fell by 53% between 2019-2023 compared to the previous four-year period
Japan reduced exports of passenger cars to Russia by 4.5% in February y/y to 14,317 units, according to Japan’s finance ministry. Supplies of Japanese spare parts and components dropped by 37.4% in the reporting period, while trucks and buses were not exported to Russia. Japan also cut grain imports from Russia by 82.7% in February y/y, while purchases of fish and fish products from Russia added 9% in the period. Japan reduced exports of medical products to Russia by 94.2%, according to data provided by the finance ministry.
Russia retains first place in the export of nitrogen fertilizers to EU
countries, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other international organizations in Rome Igor Golubovsky told TASS on March 29.
He attributed this trend to a reduction in European production of this product.
"Due to high gas prices, production of nitrogen fertilizers in the EU fell in 2022 and never recovered. Amid reduced gas supplies from Russia to Europe, Russian chemical companies increased sales of gas processing products to this market in 2023. Thus, last year, former buyers of Russian gas in Europe significantly increased the import of nitrogen fertilizers," the diplomat said.
In particular, in 2023, Germany has almost doubled purchases of nitrogen fertilizers compared to 2022 while in comparison with 2021 they soared more than seven times. In 2023, France increased imports by about a quarter compared to 2022 and purchased twice as much as in 2021.
At the same time, the total volumes of all types of fertilizers exported to unfriendly countries in 2022 fell by a quarter, the diplomat noted.
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