Russian Grain Markets: 13-19 March 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,917 MT of grain for exchange trading on 13 March and 64,983 MT of grain on 19 March.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 2.369 MMT of grains for total amount of RUR 20.125 billion. Planting Season As of today, farmers in the Southern and Northern-Caucasian regions have planted spring crops on 317,500 hectares. The total target area is 50.9 million hectares, of which 30.3 million hectares will be planted to grain crops. Market Trends: 11-15 March 2013 During the week in review, grain decreased even faster than they did at the beginning of the month, especially in Ural. Geog...