Bashkortostan significantly increases grain exports

Bashkortostan has significantly increased its grain exports, according to the press service of the republic's Ministry of Agriculture. The ministry said the growth in agro-industrial supplies is in line with the goals of the national project „International Cooperation and Exports.“

In the first nine months of last year, 307.6 thousand tonnes of grain were shipped from Bashkortostan by rail, of which 99.2 thousand tonnes were sent for export. The ministry stated that total shipments rose roughly 1.5 times, while export shipments increased two and a half times. Bashkir grain is exported mainly to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Ilshat Fazrakhmanov presented preliminary results of the region's latest agricultural year.