“Sunflower production hit a record 2.088 million tons this year,” Constantin told a news conference. “Almost all crops yielded better in 2013 compared with last year, thanks to good weather.”
In 2012, Romania’s sunflower production was 1.3 million tons.
Constantin said corn output almost doubled to 10.7 million tons in 2013, from 5.4 million tons a year earlier.
Romania this year reaped its biggest wheat and rye crop since 2005 and the second-largest one in over four decades, ministry data showed in early August.
The country’s wheat exports more than doubled to EUR300 million in the first nine months of 2013, from EUR146 million a year earlier.