Dazu noch ein paar Fakten:
Despite sanctions and some financial institutions and insurers’ refusal to facilitate payments for Russian exports, milling wheat line-ups in Russia’s ports total 3.15mn t for April so far, including 35 vessels scheduled to be loaded with a combined 456,800t later this month. This is more than triple the 801,900t shipped out in April 2021 and 23pc above the previous five-year average for April exports.
Russia may export 39 million tonnes of wheat in the 2022/23 season, which starts on July 1, Dmitry Rylko, the head of IKAR, told a conference in Geneva. In the current season, IKAR expects the exports at 32.0-32.5 million tonnes.
Russia, one of the world’s largest wheat exporters, will increase wheat exports this year due to a potentially record harvest, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
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Higher exports from Russia in the new July-June marketing season could help to partly meet rising global demand in the event that Ukraine’s exports remain low and Kyiv does not regain access to its Black Sea ports, Sovecon consultancy said in April.
Russia can offer 25 million tonnes of grain for export via the port of Novorossiysk starting from August 1 and until the end of this year, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said, speaking at UN Security Council meeting on conflicts and food security Thursday.
Dass Russland wegen der Sanktionen keinen Weizen exportieren darf, ist eine Lüge. Experten sagen, es ist eine Lüge. Der russische Botschafter bei der UN sagt, es ist eine Lüge. Selbst Putin sagt, es ist eine Lüge.
Dass Russland gleichzeitig den Preis für Weizen in die Höhe jagt, indem es der Ukraine unmöglich macht, Weizen zu verkaufen, ist dagegen keine Lüge.
Der indische Exportstopp hat übrigens auch massive Auswirkungen auf die Bauern dort:
India’s hundreds of millions of small farmers eke out a borderline existence, subject to the vagaries of the weather, and some in Punjab were already reeling from production losses due to a severe heatwave.
The price fall represents the difference between a bumper payout and heartache, they say.
Farmer Navtej Singh saved half his 60 tonne wheat harvest to sell during the lean season, when prices normally rise, and is aghast at the government’s decision.
Now he is scrambling to sell his remaining stock.
“This ban has come as a shock,” he told AFP . “The price has dropped to the lowest and doesn’t even cover our expenses. I can’t even wait for a day.”