The global balance of barley is now very profitable for the producers situation. This year trade of barley is at the level from 189 to $ 195 per ton, and last year we traded at a price of $ 155-160 per tonne, said petrychenko.

Now barley in the structure of grain exports in Russia as a whole ranks second after wheat and almost equal to it in price, said the expert. The rising price of barley continues for the last three months, and Petrichenko explains this decline in production in other grain-producing countries. The most important is the reduced production by the main user and the main cenoobrazovanija barley — Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia takes a lot of and the price that sellers offer. Just before Saudi Arabia announced a tender to buy barley to 725 thousand tons.

Also at high prices buys barley Jordan and all neighboring countries, — said petrychenko.

According to the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation on 23 November 2017, the gross harvest of barley reached 21 million 696 thousand tons (in 2016. 19 million 63 thousand tons). As expected, in the following year, Russia in connection with the increase in exports of a given culture may face excess demand for barley on the domestic market, despite the growth of the crop.

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