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Winter wheat sown areas in Russia will shrink to 15.4 million hectares in the 2025-2026 season, the lowest since the 2018-2019 season, Igor Pavensky, an analyst at Russian grain carrier Rusagrotrans, said on Wednesday. He added the estimate was for the area after overwintering. He also forecast total grain production in the 2025/26 season would reach around 133 million metric tons, including 84.5 million tons of wheat, exceeding the current season’s forecast of 123.8 million tons and 82 million tons, respectively. Winter wheat accounts for the majority of the Russian harvest. Russia’s official estimate for this year’s harvest is 130 million tons. However, Russia did not disclose the structure of winter sowing areas for the 2025 harvest, saying only the sowing area will be just under 20 million hectares, about the same as in 2024. Dry weather in the main regions of the country for winter crops has complicated this year’s sowing season. However, the quality of the crop and the likel

Australia has had a strong natural advantage into massive wheat markets in south-east Asia by dent of its freight advantage, however a deal struck between Russia and Malaysia last week highlighted how cheap Black Sea importers are looking to gain a foothold in the region. It was announced that the Russian Union of Grain Exporters had signed a deal with a Malaysian business to provide 600,000 to 700,000 tonnes of wheat. The deal is massive for Malaysia, which collectively imports generally imports around 1.5 to 1.8 million tonnes annually, with no local production. It follows the lead of Indonesia, which according to the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has increased imports from Russia ten-fold over the past two marketing years, from 168,000 tonnes to 1.6m tonnes in 2023-24. This is in spite of the average sea freight time from Russia's Black Sea ports, the engine room of the nation's grain export sector, of 45 days to Malaysia, compared to 12-22 da

The share of insured vineyards in Russia does not exceed 10%, while most plantings are under threat due to weather events. This was reported to TASS by the first deputy chairman of the board of JSC Rosselkhozbank Irina Zhachkina within the framework of the international forum "World Quality Day".