This year, the sunflower harvest in Russia will decrease by 9%, soybean and rapeseed harvests will be record-breaking

The sunflower harvest in Russia this year will decrease to 15.8-15.9 million tons, which is 8.7-9.2% less than the 2023 harvest (17.3 million tons), Vladimir Petrichenko, CEO of the ProZerno company, shared his calculations. "Forecasts fluctuate, recently they have slightly reduced estimates for soybeans, rapeseed and oilseed flax, but there is a slight increase in sunflower. Now we estimate the sunflower harvest at 15.8-15.9 million tons. Soybeans can be harvested at 7-7.1 million tons, rapeseed - 4.7-4.8 million tons, oilseed flax - 1.3 million tons," Petrichenko told Interfax. According to his estimates, in general, the harvest of four main oilseed crops (sunflower, soybeans, rapeseed, oilseed flax) can remain at last year's level or be 1.2% lower. Last year, the harvest of all oilseeds amounted to 29.9 million tons, including 17.3 million tons of sunflower, 6.8 million tons of soybeans, 4.2 million tons of rapeseed, 1.15 million tons of oil flax. "The shortfall in sunflower ...