AM: This year’s corn yield is a historical record

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2020. 12. 01. 11:18

Maize yields in 2020 are a historic record, an increase of more than 14 percent from the average of the past five years – Feldman Zsolt, secretary of state for agriculture and rural development at the Ministry of Agriculture (AM) told M1 channel on Monday.

He added that the significant increase was due in part to the fact that extremely high rainfall in the early summer period hit areas sown with corn and sunflowers across the country at the perfect time.
The increase in yields is also favorable because there was less area sown with maize than in previous years; this year’s 8.3 million tonnes of harvest is roughly the same as the average of previous years, he pointed out. It is estimated that roughly 2 million tonnes of the 8.3 million tonnes of maize will be exported, he added. (MTI)