Russia is expanding the range of vegetable oil exports is ready to provide to export markets with a new variety – flaxseed oil, according Ilya Ilyushin, the head of Russia’s Agroexport Federal Center. Russia ranks second in the world in rapeseed oil supplies with a 22% share. As a result, almost 90% of rapeseed oil exports go to China. At the same time, Africa south of the Sahara, with the exception of South Africa, doesn’t consume sunflower oil, using palm oil instead. Soybean meal supplies are small at 0.6 million tonnes, and are mainly concentrated in the markets of neighboring countries.
