Australia's wheat exports in April fall to 18.60 lakh tonnes

11-Jun-2024 09:03 PM

Sydney. The latest data from the government agency - Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that in April 2024, Australia exported a little more than 18.60 lakh tonnes of wheat,

including 16.90 lakh tonnes in bulk along with 3800 tonnes of durum. China was its biggest buyer, importing about 5.17 lakh tonnes. After this,

Yemen was second with 1.84 lakh tonnes and Indonesia was third with imports of 1.39 lakh tonnes. According to the ABS report,

during the February-April 2024 quarter, a total of 67.20 lakh tonnes of wheat was exported from Australia, including 6.10 lakh tonnes in containers and 61.10 lakh tonnes in bulk (open form).

2.09 lakh tons of wheat was exported through containers in February, 2.31 lakh tons in March and 1.70 lakh tons in April.

During this period, 88 thousand tons of wheat was exported through containers to China, around 20 thousand tons to India, 64 thousand tons to Malaysia, 1.33 lakh tons to Indonesia,

60 thousand tons to Philippines, 62 thousand tons to Taiwan, 81 thousand tons to Thailand and 62 thousand tons to Vietnam, while the remaining wheat was shipped to other countries.

As far as bulk wheat exports are concerned, during the quarter of February-April 2024, 17.84 lakh tonnes of wheat was shipped from Australia to China, 10.21 lakh tonnes to Indonesia,

1.65 lakh tonnes to Malaysia, 8337 tonnes to India, 1.24 lakh tonnes to New Zealand, 88 thousand tonnes to Oman, 3.70 lakh tonnes to Philippines, 70 thousand tonnes to Papua New Guinea,

63 thousand tonnes to Qatar, 3.07 lakh tonnes to South Korea, 1.91 lakh tonnes to South Africa, 2.29 lakh tonnes to Vietnam, 5181 lakh tonnes to Yemen and 1.40 lakh tonnes to United Arab Emirates.