The Ministry of agriculture of France has sharply reduced the forecast of crop yield and gross harvesting of wheat in the current year due to unfavorable weather, according to the News Agency Grain Online.
The average yield of wheat will not exceed 55.7 t/ha, which is a third less than last year and the lowest figure since 1986.
A month ago, the Ministry of agriculture of France predicted that the yield will be about 70.7 kg/ha. the Forecast of gross yield reduced from 36.95 million tons to 29.1 million tons. Last year's soft wheat crop was a record and amounted to 40.9 million tonnes.
In addition, the USDA lowered the forecast of gross yield of barley: from 11.7 million tons to 10.2 million tons. Compared to last year, the barley crop will decrease by 15%.
Translated by service "Yandex.Translation"
