South Africa Increases Wheat Imports in the 2019/20 season by more than 3x

As of the beginning of the 2019/20 season – in South Africa it begins on October 1– the country has imported 426,412 thousand tons of wheat, up 3.3 times from the first 2 months of the 2018/19 season, Grain On-Line reported, citing the SAGIS agency.

The top supplier of South Africa was still Lithuania (28%) and Russia was in second place (20.4%).

Last season, Russia was the leading exporter to this country in the two-month period, its share accounted for 55%.