Wheat has been harvested from half (more than 1 million hectares) of the area allocated to such crops.
“Wheat has been harvested from about 51% the area allocated to such crops so far,” the officials of the Agriculture Ministry told ZF.
The area of land allocated to wheat last fall stood at almost 2.2 million hectares, which puts Romania in the fourth place in Europe, behind France, Germany and Poland.
Agribusiness entrepreneurs say the west of the country will have very good harvests, 7 tons/hectare on average. The wheat harvested so far is very high quality, they added.
The wheat production is average in the center of the country, in Transylvania, 4.5 to 5 tons/hectare thus far. Production is good in SE Romania, 5 to 5.5 tons/hectare but below the expectations of the major farmers.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)