The forum was made by the Director of the Department of plant, mechanization, chemicalization and plant protection Pyotr Chekmarev.

"Now it rains and the weather is changing. 284 thousand hectares of crops were destroyed. It is a little, but still. Difficult situation in the Maritime region, which flooded up to 80% of crops. We lowered the maximum crop forecast from 116 million tonnes to 113 million tonnes. Stayed clean for around 10 million tons of grain maize, 700 tons of rice, about 1 million tons of wheat in General will come to 118-120 million tons of grain and leguminous, given reactii average of 5.5%, will receive 110-113 million tonnes in standard weight", — the expert expects.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of agriculture predicted that under favorable weather conditions the harvest could reach 116 million tons. However, the weather was quite bad. For this reason, farmers have received a lot of fodder and sprouted grains, however, just call it share difficult. But wheat about 20% will go to feed.