Less corn and sunflower grown in Vas county

Based on preliminary estimates, the corn and sunflower yields will be smaller in Vas county County, than in the past few years. Corn yields are expected to be 5-5.2 tonnes per hectare while the sunflower yield will be lower than 2 tonnes – Lukács Zoltán, Agriculture Inspector of the Vas county Government Office told MTI.

Lukács Zoltán told that sunflower was harvested on 250 hectares, the current average yield is 2.1 tonnes per hectare. Depending on the weather sunflower harvest is likely to be continued in the second half of the week, but it is estimated that in the remaining 7 thousand hectares yields will be lower. (MTI)