The weakest wheat crop of the recent decades was harvested in Békés county

The harvest is completed in Békés county. The farmers harvested the weakest wheat crop of the past decades. The 3.8 tons per hectare yields of the autumn wheat is lower than the predicted national average of 4.5 to 5.0 tons – Kulcsár László Békés county President of the National Chamber of Agriculture announced at a press conference on Wednesday.

Kulcsár László emphasized that the producers at the beginning of the harvest calculated with the national average from autun whest, but as the harvest progressed the quality and quantity of the wheat was deteriorated by the extremely wet weather, yellow rust, mushroom damages and due to the gopher invasion. (MTI)