Ukraine in 2017 should produce 12.8 million tons of sunflower

According to the results of Y2017, Ukraine will produce 12.8 million tons of sunflower.

This is reported by Victoria Blazhko, ODA Ukraine analyst.

"Although, the gap between the average yield of sunflower in the current and last year, from the middle of the harvesting campaign, has slightly decreased, and it continues to be significant," the analyst says.

At the time of 50% of the forecasted areas harvesting, the decrease in the yield of oilseeds in relation to the previous year amounted to 14%. By the reporting date, it decreased to 11% (1.95 t/ha compared to 2.19 t/ha in 2016).

Reference: the global production of sunflower seeds in 2017/18 MY compared with last year's index will reduce by 1.2 million tons to 48.4 million tons.