MOSCOW, Sep 2 Brazil bought $108.5 million worth of Russian grain in January-July, making Russia one of the top five suppliers for the first time, follows from calculations based on data from the Brazilian Statistical Service.
In the first seven months of this year, Brazil imported from Russia 380,000 tons of wheat and meslin worth $108.5 million, while no purchases were made in the same period last year. According to Brazil, Russia only supplied wheat and meslin in 2023. At the same time, the analysis also took into account data on other types of grain that Brazil buys from other countries.
As a result, according to the results of January-July, Russia for the first time entered the top five largest grain exporters to Brazil, ranking fourth. Prior to that, Russia sold grain to this country during the specified period in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2019, and large deliveries were recorded only in 2010 — for $5.6 million.
The traditional leader in the supply of grain to Brazil was Argentina, which sold almost 2 million tons of grain for 736.3 million dollars to its «neighbor» in seven months of this year. In second place is Paraguay, from which Brazil imported 886,000 tons of grain worth $290 million. At the same time, deliveries from these countries in absolute terms fell year-on-year by 2 and 1.5 times, respectively.
Uruguay became the third largest supplier of grain to Brazil, which, on the contrary, sharply increased them, exporting 544,000 tons for $211 million against 290,000 tons for $100 million a year earlier. The top five also includes the United States, which increased deliveries in absolute terms by 1.7 times — up to 80 thousand tons, and in monetary terms — by 1.4 times, up to 20.85 million dollars.