Russia almost doubled turkey supplies to Benin

Russia was able to almost double the supply of turkey to Benin. Agroexport reported this.

It turned out that from January to August 2026, Russia exported over 6.5 thousand tons of these products worth more than 20 million dollars to Benin. Compared to the same period last year, exports increased 1.5 times in volume terms and 1.9 times in value terms.

It is clarified that this is a record figure for the first eight months of the calendar year in the entire history of observations.

It was previously reported that in the first six months of 2026 in Russia, turkey sales jumped by 17 percent year on year and reached 42 thousand tons. In monetary terms, the growth was 22 percent. At the same time, sales of chicken fillets in physical terms increased by 5.2 percent, to 325.3 thousand tons.