The rapeseed forecast is a result of good weather conditions, while the European Union’s Agricultural Journal revised up 7.7% Romania’s rapeseed harvest forecast for 2015.
Thus, Romania’s rapeseed yield increase is the second largest among the top 20 rapeseed producers in the EU. Hungary ranked 1st, with a 18% rapeseed yield increase compared with the previou month estimations.
According to the end-March report, farmers are expected to harvest 960.000 tons of rapeseed, down 10% from last year’s high, on the backdrop of smaller rapeseed areas planted. The harvest will begin in about four weeks, so final results may still be affected by weather conditions until then.