Crude sunflower oil russia
With 1,865,498 tonnes, Russia is the largest producer of sunflower oil. The cultivation of sunflower seeds in the country takes up about 6.8 million hectares of land with the main growing regions being Krasnodar, Rostov, Belgorod, Saratov and Voronezh. EFKO Group performs processing of oilseeds such as sunflower and rapeseed, soybean, and sells the following major products: crude sunflower oil in bulk and meal, crude soybean oil, meal and hulls, raw rapeseed oil, meal and cake. The Oilseeeds and Grain Operations business unit coordinates the functioning of eight purchasing facilities and three oil-extraction facilities, that form two agricultural clusters in the south and the east of the sunflower-producing regions of Russia.