{"id":23289,"date":"2025-09-24T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23289"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:49:05","slug":"russia-about-to-rob-canada-flaxseed-market-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/09\/24\/russia-about-to-rob-canada-flaxseed-market-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia about to rob Canada flaxseed market dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Russia is building a mega oilseed crushing factory in the southwest port of Azov that could rival the flaxseed product market lead by Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This largest crushing plant in Europe by ASVA will have an annual processing capacity of 148,500 tonnes of the raw seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily for Canada, export market rivalry for raw flaxseed will diminish because the plant will consume a substantial part of Russia\u2019s harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, at a later date the eastern European nation could expand acreage drastically to accommodate ambitious processing plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 2022, Russia had 32,497 hectares (ha) under flax seed for only making fiber, per the Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>FAO<\/u><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acreage marked a consecutive 3-year annual decrease from a 2020 high of 45,390 ha, which the country could try to reclaim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the bigger flax crop for processing other products like oil, cake and paint runs into hundreds of thousands of hectares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sergey Pluzhnikov, chief executive at Russian Pulses Analytics, the ASVA plant alone \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moosejawtoday.com\/agriculture-news\/big-russian-flax-plant-is-another-threat-to-canada-11243142\"><u>could stimulate &#8230;flax production<\/u><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from ASVA\u2019s plant, the current biggest national flax crusher, the Sodrugestvo Group, is apparently planning a similar mega plant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-oilseed-product-exports\"><strong>Oilseed Product Exports<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though exports of raw seeds will reduce to enhance domestic crushing needs, shipments of niche oil and cake product will increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ASVA plans to deliver 70% of its flax oil and cake to China, the traditional buyer of<a href=\"https:\/\/logisticos.org\/news\/2023\/09\/6208\"><u>&nbsp;70%&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>of nationwide flaxseed products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China notably used to be one of Canada\u2019s principal flaxseed markets but currently only controls under a 5% share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s total flax oil shipments in the 2024-25 period amounted to 3,700 tonnes. ASVA in turn plans to process 90,000 tonnes of cake and 53,500 tonnes of flax oil annually, 3\/4 of which bound for export.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key recipients will be China, T\u00fcrkiye and Western Asia, because European Union\u2019s 20% tariffs make it unprofitable to export nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Moscow is not a major export player in Western markets, its rapid production and crushing vision is significant. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing trade war pitting Canada and the U.S. has also cost-impacted North American rates, giving\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/russia\/flaxseed-oil\/\"><u>Russia\u2019s flaxseed prices<\/u><\/a>\u00a0Asian competitiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toe to toe, Moscow has the advantage of employing traditional organic planting practices in places like Siberia and the south. The Canada flaxseed sector on the other hand depends somewhat on genetically modified technologies. The below statistics take the comparison further, numerically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-russia-and-canada-flaxseed-and-flax-fiber-statistics\"><strong>Russia and Canada Flaxseed and Flax Fiber&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Statistics&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada has for long been the biggest flaxseed-producing nation while Russia is a sleeping giant with indeterminate production. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/essfeed.com\/top-10-flaxseed-producing-countries-in-the-world\/\"><u>ESS Feed<\/u><\/a>, Canada\u2019s &nbsp;projected production of raw flaxseed in 2025 was 700,000 tonnes, worth US$500 million. Next to Kazakhstan, Russia comes third in the tally with 400,000 tonnes worth $250 million. Another tally put the earlier 2024 harvest in Russia three times that figure at a record&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/momex.ae\/news\/flaxseed-market-rising-prices-canada-vs-us-tariffs-and-russias-record-harvest-shape-global-trade\/\"><u>1.3 million tonnes<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How much flax fiber does Russia produce?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of raw flax fiber, the FAOSTAT puts Russia\u2019s output at&nbsp;<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>24,103 tonnes<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;(2022). Below is the full production picture of the raw fiber, courtesy of the FAOSTAT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Acreage [Ha]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>24,103<\/td><td>32,497<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>25,947<\/td><td>36,483<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>39,262<\/td><td>45,390<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>38,464<\/td><td>44,437<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:\u00a0<em>raw or retted flax production and cultivated area in Russia, 2019-22<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the above acreage captures only the harvested swathe for flaxseed that converts into fiber, all acreage of the multi-purpose crop is bigger: the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/businessesranker.com\/largest-flax-producing-countries-in-the-world\/1537\/\"><u>Business Ranker<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;puts Russia\u2019s total flaxseed acreage at least 650,000 hectares.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are the salient facts about flaxseed production in Russia?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li>Production started in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/businessesranker.com\/largest-flax-producing-countries-in-the-world\/1537\/\"><u>700s A.D.<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cultivation lies in the south and south central (Rostov, Kurgan and Omsk) as well as Siberia (Altai\/Novosibirsk).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Altai accounts for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/logisticos.org\/news\/2023\/09\/6208\"><u>16%&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>of the production while Omsk follows with 10%.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is Canada a big shipper of flax fiber<\/strong>?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it is the biggest flaxseed product shipper worldwide, Canada is not the top flax fiber exporter. According to the World Bank, raw or retted flax exports by Canada reached&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wits.worldbank.org\/trade\/comtrade\/en\/country\/ALL\/year\/2023\/tradeflow\/Exports\/partner\/WLD\/product\/530110\"><u>703.1 tonnes<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in 2023. This was the 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;highest worldwide after Egypt, the EU, Belgium and India.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is building a mega oilseed crushing factory in the southwest port of Azov that could rival the flaxseed product market lead by Canada. This largest crushing plant in Europe by ASVA will have an annual processing capacity of 148,500 tonnes of the raw seed. 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