From April 13 to may 7 from the intervention Fund sold 562,2 thousand tons of wheat of the 3rd class 495,4 thousand tons of wheat of the 4th class, to 65.3 thousand tons of wheat of the 5th grade, 15.3 thousand tons of feed barley. In total the auction sold more than 1.1 million tonnes of grain worth nearly 13.9 billion rubles, follows from the data of the National commodity exchange.
Due to the intervention, as well as the quota on grain exports last week, the price of grain and flour in Russia has stabilized, and adjustment of prices will continue, assured in the Ministry of agriculture. At auction it is planned to implement up to 1.5 million tons of grain from the state Fund. All in all, there is stored a little more than 1.75 million tons of the intervention, apparently, will not give up and then. “In the future, the Ministry of agriculture plans to improve the mechanism of grain interventions based on current market needs”, – told “RG” in the Department.
In the course of trading this season, several elevators were convicted of inflating the prices of grain from the state Fund. Thus, the “United grain company” (operator intervention) revealed a two-fold overestimation of the rates for the elevators in the Omsk region. The issue was connected to FAS, and even the General Prosecutor’s office. In some regions Antimonopoly service has already conducted an inspection of the grain elevators that ship grain from the intervention Fund, said assistant Manager Anna Microcinema. So, according to her, in the Saratov region anti-monopoly service jointly with the Prosecutor’s office found that “Ershovskiy Elevator” significantly raised the prices of their services without economically justified reasons. The leadership of the Elevator issued a warning. Now the Elevator has lowered the price of shipping grain from the intervention Fund, said Microcinema. And this work will continue, promised the Agency.
Vice-President of the Russian Union of bakers Alexey Lyalin admits that the vast majority of trading millers could buy wheat from the state Fund priced below market. Although there have been isolated cases when the price per lot was raised above. But significantly undercut the prices of flour failed, says Lyalin. According to him, now wheat flour cost 22 rubles/kg, while average price in “peaceful” times was to 17.5 RUB/kg. While in Russia is not left rye. Now the bakers are forced to buy it in the Baltic States at “fabulous” prices. In the end, the rye flour is about 21.5 rubles/kg, while usually cheaper wheat on the average on 3 roubles/kg.
According to the National Union of grain producers, by the end of April, grain prices declined slightly only in the export oriented South. It happened due to the suspension of supplies of Russian grain abroad, according to the Union. We will remind, the export quota of 7 million tons of grain outside the EAEU was established by the Ministry of agriculture April 1 to June 30. And already on 26 April, she was chosen. According to information fTC, the export of grain this agricultural season on April 27, 2020 amounted to 37.8 million tons. This is almost 5.5% below the same indicator of the last agricultural year, when the country had exported almost 40 million tons of grain.
