Forecast for sunflower crop in Ukraine is lowered

According to renewed forecast of APK-Inform, in 2017 sunflower crop in Ukraine will amount to 13.8 million tonnes, below the previous estimate of 14 million tonnes and the 2016 crop – 14.9 million tonnes.

The correction is made by taking into account that the current yields are 10-20% less than the previous year. The seed quality is lower, which will affect the production of sunflower oil in the country in 2017 - 2018 as well. Now the seed fat content is 42-44% at over 45% in 2016.

The forecast for soybean crop is down to 3.74 million tonnes in a previous estimate of 4 million tonnes and 4.3 million tonnes in 2016.