Export of sawn wood from the Tomsk region increased by 60% for 3 years

TOMSK, Feb 18 – RIA Tomsk. More than 1.5 million cubic meters of timber were exported from the Tomsk region in 2020, which is 13% more than in 2019, and 60% more than in 2017, Acting Head of the Regional Department of Rosselkhoznadzor Vladislav Fedulov told reporters on Thursday.

Earlier it was reported that in the Tomsk region, the export of products of the timber processing complex (TPC) accounts for 50.2% of the total. In 2020, timber industry products were exported for 141.5 million dollars (in 2019 – 180 million dollars). Of these, 67.8% fell on sawn timber, 23.2% on chipboard, 5.5% on fibreboard (MDF, OSB), 3% on veneer and plywood, 0.25% on round timber.

"More than 1.5 million cubic meters of timber were exported from the Tomsk region in 2020, last year there were 1.36 million cubic meters... The growth of sawn timber in exports compared to 2019 is 13%, and almost 60% more than in 2017 of the year", – Fedulov said at a press conference at the RIA Tomsk media center.

He also said that in 2020 more than 6 tons of dried peas were exported to the Baltic countries, 105 tons of fresh mushrooms to Bulgaria, 27 tons of sea buckthorn kernels to Finland, almost 7.5 tons of birch bark to Germany and Japan, 2 tons of pine nut shells to Lithuania. The region also exported about 6.5 tons of pine nuts and almost 17.5 tons of rapeseed oil.

For the first time, flax and rapeseed were exported from the Tomsk region to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and soybeans – to Poland.