This is due to the heats in France. The crop will reach 21.12 million tonnes, which is 4.2% more than 2016-2017.
Sunflower crop forecast is reduced by 200,000 tonnes to 8.36 million tonnes, up by 1% than the previous year.
The soybean crop will be 2.58 million tonnes (2.56 and + 4.3%).