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Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 5 June - 11 June 2013 Planting Updates As of 6 June, spring grain crops were planted on 30.2 million hectares. This is 99.8 percent of the target and 383,800 million hectares less than plantings as of the same period last year. Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund sold 44,972 MT of grains for exchange commodity trading on 5 June 2013 and sold 36,467 MT. Another 89,899 MT of grains were put up for trading on 10 June, of which 77,479 MT were sold.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 3.502 MMT of grain for total amount of RUR 28.882 billion.Russian Deputy Ag Minister Ilya Shestakov announced that the government may delay the 2013 state gra...

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