According to the French Farm Ministry, France, the European Union’s biggest grain producer, is expected to produce 37.1 million tonnes of soft #wheat this year.
That is up 27.1% from 2020 and also 11.2% above the average of the past five years.
The projected yield is of 7.51 tonnes per hectare (t/ha), up from 6.85 t/ha last year, and the crop area is of 4.94 million hectares, up from 4.26 million last year, it said.
The area sown with grain maize, on the other hand, was seen falling to 1.44 million hectares, an estimate revised down from 1.50 million in June.
Meantime, the ministry pegged also this year’s all- barley harvest at 11.3 million tonnes, up 8.4% from last year.
For #rapeseed, the ministry pegged production, including a marginal 4,000 tonnes of spring #crop, at 3.0 million tonnes, down 9% from last year.
