The Russian Competition Authority analyses the state of competition in the market for seeding soybeans

FAS ANALYSED THE STATE OF COMPETITION ON THE MARKET OF SEEDING SOYBEANS* The results show significant dependence of the Russian market on import of the agricultural crop The goal of the survey1 is to analyze dependence of the domestic market on supplies of foreign-developed seed material to the Russian Federation. FAS also established that a considerable amount of soybeans used for seeding is in the so-called “gray” zone, first of all, due to the practice of unlawful replanting of seed material within farms2, and