Wheat Production, Wheat Imports and Exports of Russia between 1987 and 2019 (in million tonnes) and the Export Share (%)

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... meteoric rise from grain importer to the world's largest exporter of wheat took place within the last 15 years and occurred much faster than generally expected. For the current season (2019/2020), it is estimated that Russia will export approximately 37.5 million tonnes of wheat to the world markets ( Fig. 1). However, it can be expected that Russia's wheat production will further increase in the future, as Russia has huge unused agricultural production potential: In this context, the increase in production through the improvement of cultivation technologies, such as the increased use of fertilizers, is crucial. Furthermore, Russia has ...

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... the turn of the millennium, Russia was still a net importer of wheat. Less than twenty years later, in the 2017/18 season, Russian exports amounted to a record of over 41 million tonnes, which corresponds to around 23 percent of world wheat exports and clearly exceeded the exports of all other countries (see Figure 1 overleaf). Within the Black Sea region, also Ukraine has been able to increase its share of the global wheat market to around 10 percent over the last two decades. ...