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MOSCOW, April 22 (Reuters) – Russian agriculture consultancy IKAR has downgraded its forecast for Russia’s 2021 wheat crop to 79.5 million tonnes from 81 million tonnes, it mentioned on Thursday.
Russia competes with the European Union for the rank of the world’s largest wheat exporter.
The forecast was lowered as farmers might want to resow wheat on a big space of Russia’s central area after the winter, IKAR mentioned in a be aware.
Greater than 700,000 hectares, about 18% of the area’s whole space, can be up for potential replanting, although IKAR mentioned it anticipated the precise resowed space to be smaller.
There are different locations the place plantings in fields are “not in an optimum form,” it added.
Russian farmers have been sowing winter grains in dry soil final autumn on account of lack of rains. A few of their sowings have been additionally affected by a speedy shift of climate from frosts to hotter temperatures in late winter, IKAR mentioned.
Sovecon, one other Moscow-based consultancy, additionally mentioned earlier this week that farmers in some Russia’s central areas reported {that a} excessive share of their winter wheat sowings have been in unhealthy situation after winter.
(Reporting by Polina Devitt Enhancing by Jason Neely and Bernadette Baum)
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