2025 Russia Sunflower Oil Export Report: Key Data & Industry Trends from RUSEED

The Russian Oilseed Analysis Center (RUSEED) has released its full summary of Russia’s sunflower oil exports in 2025, covering core performance indicators, market structure changes, and long-term development trends of this pillar category in Russia’s oil and fat industry. Against the backdrop of structural adjustment in Russia’s agricultural exports, this report reveals clear market opportunities for sunflower oil producers, processors, and agricultural operators across the country.

2025 Overall Overview of Russian Agricultural Exports

In 2025, the total export volume of Russia’s agro-industrial complex products reached about 80 million tons, with a total export value of 41.5 billion US dollars. The past year has witnessed a clear structural adjustment in Russia’s agricultural export sector: while the total physical export volume has declined, the market has accelerated its shift towards high-value-added product segments. This structural change has made the export performance of core cash crop categories more worthy of attention, among which sunflower oil, the core export product of Russia’s oil and fat industry, has maintained a pivotal position in the country’s agricultural export portfolio.

Core Indicators of 2025 Sunflower Oil Exports

Russia’s sunflower oil exports hit a historical record of about 5.9 million tons in 2024. However, affected by weather factors and reduced sunflower seed production in the 2024/25 crop season, the physical export volume of sunflower oil in 2025 saw a year-on-year decline of about 20%. Driven by rising market prices, the decline in sunflower oil export value was significantly smaller than the drop in physical volume. In October 2025, the export unit price of sunflower oil was 1221.8 US dollars per ton, up 11% year-on-year; the unit price reached 1235.1 US dollars per ton in November (a 7% year-on-year increase) and 1238.9 US dollars per ton in December (a 12% year-on-year increase).In terms of export share, sunflower oil has accounted for a stable 5% of the physical export structure of Russia’s agro-industrial complex in the past three years, compared with only 4% in the previous five years. This data fully confirms that the weight of sunflower oil in Russia’s export product portfolio is steadily increasing, and its importance to the country’s agricultural export sector continues to rise.

Core Export Markets for Russian Sunflower Oil in 2025

Global import demand for sunflower oil is highly concentrated in several core consumer markets, with the European Union, Türkiye, and China remaining the world’s major importers. For Russia, the core export destinations of sunflower oil are still large traditional trading partners in Asia and the Middle East. The share of Russia’s 2025 sunflower oil exports by key markets is as follows:

• India: about 22%
• Türkiye: about 20%
• CIS countries: about 13%
• China: about 6%
• Egypt: about 3%

Data source: International Trade Center (ITC), mirror statistics

The stable demand from these core markets has formed solid support for Russia’s sunflower oil exports, and also laid a foundation for the long-term development of domestic sunflower planting and deep processing industries.

Market Outlook: Long-Term Growth Potential Remains

The global vegetable oil market continues to expand in scale, driven by global population growth, dietary structure changes, and rising demand in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Along with this trend, the share of sunflower oil in the global vegetable oil category continues to rise. Despite the decline in physical export volume in 2025, rising market prices have partially offset the impact of the reduction. Russia still maintains its position as the world’s largest supplier of sunflower oil and has formed a large and stable procurement belt from Türkiye to China. This pattern has laid a solid foundation for the further growth of Russia’s sunflower oil exports against the background of the continuous expansion of the global vegetable oil market.For domestic agricultural operators and processing enterprises, the core of seizing this industry dividend lies in improving processed product quality, increasing product added value, and reducing processing losses, so as to meet the strict quality standards of global export markets and maximize profit margins.

Maximize Processing Profits with Professional Sunflower Processing Equipment

To seize the opportunities brought by the growing global demand for high-quality sunflower oil, professional and efficient pre-processing equipment is essential for sunflower oil processing enterprises and large-scale farms. Isortym provides reliable processing equipment tailored for the sunflower processing industry, helping operators improve processing efficiency, reduce raw material loss, and produce high-quality products that meet international export standards.

Core Equipment for High-Efficiency Sunflower Processing

5XF-2000 Air-Screen Cleaner

As the core equipment for the first step of sunflower seed pretreatment, this high-efficiency air-screen cleaner effectively removes dust, straw, shriveled grains, light impurities and other contaminants mixed in raw sunflower seeds. It greatly improves raw material purity, lays a solid foundation for subsequent dehulling and pressing processes, reduces processing loss, and ensures the quality of the final sunflower oil product.

KTF5-3000 Sunflower Seeds Dehuller

This professional dehulling equipment is specially designed for sunflower seed processing, with a high dehulling rate and extremely low kernel breakage rate. It efficiently separates sunflower seed hulls and kernels, avoids the impact of hulls on the oil pressing process and oil quality, and improves oil yield. It can meet the needs of continuous and stable production for both large oil processing plants and medium-sized farms, helping enterprises improve product added value.

Non-Broken Elevator

As the key conveying equipment connecting each processing link, the non-broken elevator adopts a gentle, low-speed conveying design. It can stably transport sunflower seeds between different processing equipment while avoiding kernel breakage during conveying, effectively reducing raw material loss caused by mechanical damage. It ensures the integrity of sunflower kernels and maximizes raw material utilization for enterprises.

Final Takeaway

While Russia’s sunflower oil export volume experienced a short-term decline in 2025, the long-term growth momentum of the industry remains strong. The rising global demand for high-quality sunflower oil, coupled with Russia’s core position as a global leading supplier, has brought sustained profit opportunities for the entire sunflower industry chain. Equipped with professional, stable, and efficient processing equipment, agricultural operators and processing enterprises can better seize this industry dividend, improve product competitiveness in the global market, and achieve long-term stable profit growth.