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Russia is interested in exporting value-added products, particularly rice groats, and therefore exports will gradually open up depending on production volumes. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev during the All-Russian Grain Forum. Regarding the export of unmilled rice, it is not planned to be opened, since, according to Patrushev, even last year's record harvest (about 1.2 million tons) was insufficient to fully load the country's processing capacities (about 1.5 million tons). The day before, the head of the commodity distribution infrastructure department of the Agricultural Market Regulation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sergei Smirnov, announced during the forum that from 2026, the department plans to develop a clear and transparent mechanism for determining the rice export quota, Interfax reports. "The quota volume will be calculated as 60% of the difference between the actual gross rice harvest in each specific year and the volume of 1.1 ...

The secretariat of Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak reported that the Ministry of Agriculture's proposal to extend the rice export ban was supported at a meeting of the Customs Tariff and Non-Tariff Regulation, Foreign Trade Protection Measures Subcommittee. The committee also reviewed the issue of implementing a 50,000-ton tariff quota for rice exports to regions outside the Eurasian Economic Union. The proposal suggests setting the export tariff rate at 0% within the quota and 50% outside the quota. It is understood that the relevant draft resolution will be submitted to the government for review in the near future.

The export of this crop may be resumed with a harvest of 2 million tons The volume of rice gross harvest in the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) is planned to be increased almost twofold by 2030. This was stated in a presentation by Roman Nekrasov, Director of the Department of Plant Growing, Mechanization, Chemicalization, and Plant Protection of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, presented at the Caucasian Investment Forum. "Dynamics of crop production development in the North Caucasus regions: <...> rice — 123,000 tons in 2020, <...> 172,900 tons in 2024, 323,900 tons in 2030," the presentation states. Nekrasov also reported that rice exports from Russia will be resumed when its gross harvest reaches 2 million tons. "Good export prospects. We understand that as soon as our gross harvest reaches 2 million tons — we are not far from these milestones — we will have rice exports opened," TASS quotes him as saying. Moreover, the Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a draft ...