France forecasts growth in wheat and barley export

FranceAgrimer published its first report on French grain export in 2017 – 2018.

Export of soft wheat is expected at 18.16 million tonnes, up 60.1% from the previous season, but 12% less than the record set in 2015-2016.

To EU countries, 7.85 million tonnes of wheat (+ 25.4% compared to the previous year) could be delivered and 10.2 million tonnes (+ 105.2%) could be delivered to third countries.

Export of hard wheat will be 1.3 million tonnes (+ 24.8%), which will be the best result from 2013 - 2014. until now. Then, 1.46 million tonnes of this product were exported.

900,000 tonnes of French hard wheat (+ 8%), will be exported to EU countries and to third countries 400,000 tonnes (+ 91.8%).

Export of feed barley reaches 6.79 million tonnes (+ 28.6%), which is 8% below the record in 2015-2016.

3.275 million tonnes of barley (+ 12.6%) were delivered to EU countries, and 3.5 million tonnes (+ 48.4%) to third countries.