On September 27, National Mercantile Exchange CJSC (NAMEX) held the regular stock exchange trading within frames of public grain purchasing interventions in the regional trading platforms of Russia, and purchased 63.99 thousand tons of grains (from the proposed volume of 64.665 thousand tons) valued at 640 million rubles, the press-service of NAMEX declared.
In particular, the fund purchased 36.585 thousand tons of 3-grade wheat (whole proposed volume), 20.115 thousand tons of 4-grade wheat (whole proposed volume), 5.13 thousand tons of 5-grade wheat (whole proposed volume), and 2.16 thousand tons of barley (from the proposed volume of 2.835 thousand tons).
The weighted average prices of the grains sold to the intervention fund were as follows:
– 3-grade wheat – 10`524.7 RUR/ton;
– 4-grade wheat – 9`973.5 RUR/ton;
– 5-grade wheat – 8`561 RUR/ton;
– 1-group barley – 8`000 RUR/ton.
Since the beginning of the purchasing auction (September 19), the intervention fund at NAMEX exchange site has already purchased 158.76 thousand tons of grains valued at 1.604 billion RUR. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)