Share of grain in Russian agricultural exports falls to 27% in 2025 - Agroexport

MOSCOW. April 17 (Interfax) - The share of grain in Russian agricultural exports amounted to 27% by value in 2025 against 37% in 2024, but it retained its leading position in total shipments, according to the Agricultural Exports of Russian Regions review prepared by the Agroexport federal center.

The share of oil and fat products increased to 22% from 20%, food and processing industry products rose to 14% from 12%, and fish and seafood increased to 14% from 11%, respectively.

Russia plans to reduce the share of grain in agricultural exports to 25% by 2030, Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut previously said. Exports are increasingly focusing on supplies of high value-added products, she said.

According to the review, the highest average annual export growth rates for the period 2021-2025 were recorded in shipments of meat and dairy products, at 14.1%. Exports of oil and fat products grew 6.1% on average, while food industry products grew 3.6%. However, for exports of grain as well as fish and seafood, the indicator was negative - 0.1% and 2.6%, respectively. Compared to 2024, the largest revenue growth was recorded from exports of fish and seafood (22%), meat and dairy products (19.9%) and food industry products (12.2%).

Among the goods that showed the largest growth in shipments in the period from 2021 to 2025, the center highlighted lamb (fourteenfold), live animals (3.5-fold), sunflower seeds (3.1-fold), sugar (2.8-fold) and frozen edible pork offal (2.7-fold).

The center recalled that Russia exported agricultural products worth $41.6 billion in 2025. The discrepancy with the data of the Federal Customs Service ($40.9 billion) was previously explained by the fact that the service's figures do not include exports of fish and seafood caught outside Russia's customs zone, as well as a number of other items included in the Export of Agricultural Products federal project. In physical terms, exports amounted to 83.3 million tonnes.

Russia exported agricultural products to more than 170 countries in 2025. "As in the previous two years, China took first place in value terms among leading importers ($7.7 billion). Next are Belarus ($4 billion), Kazakhstan ($3.8 billion), Turkey ($3.8 billion), Iran ($2.9 billion) and Egypt ($2.3 billion)," Agroexport said.

The center also reported that almost 63% ($26.1 billion) of Russian agricultural exports were provided by ten regions with export revenues exceeding $900 million each last year. The top five remained unchanged: Moscow ($7.5 billion), the Rostov region ($5.2 billion), the Moscow region ($2.8 billion), the Krasnodar region ($2.25 billion) and Primorye Territory ($2.21 billion). The top ten also included the Kaliningrad, Belgorod, Novosibirsk and Murmansk regions and Kamchatka Territory. St. Petersburg, Lipetsk and Kursk regions left the top ten.