Russia has reduced the gross harvest of corn, rice, and millet in 2022

Their collection, on average, decreased by a fifth Against the background of record harvests of wheat, rye and oats in Russia, the harvest of corn and rice decreased last year, according to the Rosstat report on the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for December 2022. “In the composition of grains and leguminous crops in 2022, compared with the previous year, there was an increase in the gross harvest of wheat, rye, triticale, barley, oats, buckwheat, leguminous crops, a decrease in corn, rice and millet,” the report says. Thus, rice in weight after processing, according to preliminary estimates, produced 798 thousand tons (-25.9% by 2021), corn - 11.8 million tons (-22.7%), millet - 309 thousand tons ( -16.2%). In general, in the structure of grain production in 2022, compared to 2021, the share of wheat, barley, buckwheat increased, while the share of corn, oats, rice, millet, legumes decreased. Rosstat has not yet corrected the preliminary estimate of the ...