Sunflower seeds: EU estimates significantly reduced

August 1, 2024 at 4:54 PM , Der AUDITOR
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SOFIA/DALIAN. The European Commission has made significant revisions to its crop forecasts for EU sunflower seed production in 2024. Drought and heat pose a challenge in many growing regions.

Drought leads to crop corrections

Heat and drought have reduced the initially optimistic production estimates for the 2024 EU sunflower seed crop. While the European Commission's June forecasts were still at 10.786 million mt, the expectations in the current report are now only 10.137 million mt. However, this would still correspond to a year-on-year increase of 3.2%.

There were significant downward revisions, particularly in crop estimates for Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. Alongside France – where the forecast remains unchanged - these growing countr

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