“We’ve bragged about record output but these comments had a psychological effect and led to a drop in some producers’ prices,” Matei said at the MEDIAFAX Talks about Agriculture conference.
He added sale prices dropped 10-15% for wheat, maize, and sunflower.
“I said Romania had a large output, not surplus. Romania could reach a wheat output of well over 10 million tons,” Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara said in reply.
Tabara said in September Romania’s wheat output this year exceeds 8 million tons, half of which is available for export. He also said the country’s maize output is seen topping 11 million tons, while sunflower output will reach 1.6 million tons, which is a record high. Romania also has an estimated rapeseed output of nearly 800,000 tons this year.