“The oilseed rape harvest is the best one since 1970 [when Romania started farming rape on a large scale]. To be more precise, this year’s harvest, of 1.089 million tons, is almost double compared with 2013,” Constantin told Mediafax reporters.
Oilseed rape production reached 647,811 tons last year.
Romanian farmers planted 423,000 hectares of oilseed rape, up from 284,000 hectares in the previous year. The yield per hectare rose to 2.6 tons from 2.2 tons a year ago.
“This is very good news, considering that the heavy rains and flooding have caused some problems, particularly in July,” Constantin said.
He said the results for the 2014 wheat and corn harvest will be released at the end of this week.
Romania’s oilseed rape market is estimated at EUR350 million this year. Around 80% of the total harvest is exported.