Russia exported 412,000 tons of wheat to Tunisia in the first half of the 2023/2024 agricultural year (July-December), 50% more than the 278,000 tons exported in the whole of the previous agricultural year and more than the record 306,000 tons exported in the 2017/2018 agricultural year, the Rusagrotrans analytical center told Interfax.
Hard wheat made up a third of these exports, the center said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Tunisia that the country has expressed interest in expanding imports of Russian grain.
“Today we confirmed interest in having the intergovernmental commission, which will resume its work in the first quarter of next year, monitor all these processes and provide a political push where needed,” Lavrov added.
