Bashkir exported oil for 20 million yuans to China

UFA, 5 December 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

Kumertau LLC Elevator exported 4,000 tons of sunflower oil worth 20 million yuans to the People’s Republic of China this year. By the way, the first test batch of oil was sent to China in July. Now gradually interest in Bashkir oil is growing, and the company expects to increase the volume of exports of oil and fat products to China.

The press service of the Ministry of Agriculture RB said that in 2019 more than 103,000 tons of oil and fat products (sunflower, rapeseed oil and meal) were exported from Bashkortostan, totaling more than 2.6 billion rubles. Two enterprises were exporters - the Chishminsky oil-extraction plant and Elevator LLC, which belong to the Sigma Group of Companies. In 2019, in addition to China, the geography of deliveries included the Baltic countries, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Belarus.