Analysts expect the lowest gross sunflower harvest in recent years.

Due to a decrease in yield in key sunflower-producing regions and weather conditions, Ukraine is expected to have a lower sunflower oil yield in the 2025/26 season — at 11.4 million tons, compared to the previous forecast of 12 million tons. This is reported by ASAP Agri. "The main production regions — Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Kharkiv — have suffered greatly from prolonged summer drought, with yields ranging from 0.5 to 1.6 tons/ha. In the central and northern regions — Vinnytsia, Poltava, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv — the figures are higher, but rains at the end of September and in October may cause further delays in harvesting and partial crop losses," noted Christina Serebriakova, CEO of ASAP Agri. Incidentally, this figure is still higher than last year's (10.2 million tons). According to the latest official data (as of ...