How does climate affect grain and oilseed yields in Russia?

Published Feb 1, 2024

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Global warming is affecting crop yields worldwide, with some regions experiencing droughts and others benefiting from warmer climates. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has revised crop forecasts due to weather extremes, with decreased grain harvests in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, but increased yields in Russia, Turkey, and the US. Despite a 9.5% decrease from the record year 2022, Russian farmers harvested the second largest grain harvest in history, with climate change increasing crop yield in all federal districts except the Far Eastern and Southern ones.

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Global warming has been a topic of news and scientific articles in recent decades. Phenomena such as increasingly frequent droughts also affect the yields of Russian farmers. But while some regions are forced to deal with the consequences of the heat, others, on the contrary, have the opportunity to grow crops that were previously inaccessible due to the cold climate. How breeders take into account the problems of warming, how farms are adapting, and what the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia sees as a solution - in the material. Due to the increasing frequency of weather extremes, experts are forced to regularly revise crop forecasts in different countries of the world. Thus, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), last year the grain harvest in Argentina and Brazil and corn production in Mexico were below expectations - some of the crops were lost due to dry weather at the end of the growing season. However, this drop was offset by higher grain harvests ...

Source: Oilworld