Sunflower harvest in Russia in 2022 may reach 16-16.4 million tons

The sunflower harvest in Russia in 2022 may reach 16-16.4 million tons, which will be a record figure, despite the prevailing weather conditions in a number of regions of the country. Vladimir Zhilin, Head of the Commodity Market Analysis Department at Rusagro Group, announced this during the conference "Agrotrends of Russia - 2022-2023". "I made a reasonably pessimistic forecast for myself. It turned out to be 16 million tons. Colleagues on the market estimate the harvest at 16.3-16.4 million tons. This is also realistic. Last year, the harvest was 15.7 million tons, and this was also a record" , - he said. The expert stressed that he is not yet "ready to give up positions" on the expectations of a record sunflower harvest in the country. At the same time, he noted that now there is a very serious problem with sunflower harvesting due to difficult weather conditions, so there will be losses. “When I predicted, I saw the potential of more than 17 million tons of gross harvest. Now ...