The downward adjustment was made taking into account the consequences of the April frost in key producing centres, in particular in France, Germany and Poland. In addition, prolonged lack of rainfall in France, the UK and Belgium will also lead to a decrease in gross harvest of grain in those countries.

In particular, the forecast of the harvest of soft wheat in the EU were lowered by 1.1 million tons to 142.7 million tonnes of durum wheat on 300 thousand tons to 8.6 million tons. For barley assessment has been reduced by 1.7 million tonnes to 59.6 million tonnes, for maize - 300 thousand tonnes to 60.1 million tonnes.

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