According to experts, the attractiveness of this crop for many farmers is reduced, which leads to a reduction of the global cultivated area, and as a consequence, the reduction of gross yield of barley.

In 2017/18 MG experts expect that global acreage of barley will decrease by 960 thousand hectares in the year to 47.2 million hectares, which will be minimal, since 1960

In particular, in the USA, this figure will drop to 2.5 million acres – the minimum of the result from 1910 to the Decline in barley crop in the next season is also expected in Canada, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

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