In 2017/18 MY, the general harvest of sunflower seed in Ukraine will reduce by nearly 8% compared with the previous season - to 12.5 mln tonnes, declared the General Director of the association Ukroliyaprom, Stepan Kapshuk at the conference "Fat-and-Oil Industry - 2017" on October 26, in Kyiv, Ukraine.
According to him, a significant decreasing of the yield indices of Ukrainian sunflower seed to 2 t/ha, as opposed to the last year level at 2.24 t/ha, will become a determining factor in reduction of the production volumes. But increasing of sunflower seed areas in Ukraine in 2017 by 2% compared with the previous level, to 6.075 mln ha, will become a certain compensation of the reporting changes. However, the high planted areas will fail to completely neutralize the effect of reduced yield indices.
Also, in the current year Ukraine will reduce the general harvest of soybeans by 13% in comparison with the figures of 2016, to 4 mln tonnes, mainly due to decreasing of the yield – from 2.31 t/ha, to 2 t/ha.
At the same time, in the current season the production of rapeseed is expected to significantly increase by 90%, from 1.142 mln tonnes, to 2.15 mln tonnes. Ukraine will increase the oilseed production due to both growing of the yield indices (from 2.57 t/ha, to 2.76 t/ha), and significant enlargement of the harvested areas, from 448.8 thsd ha to 778 thsd ha, added S.Kapshuk.
You can receive more detailed information about the key points of "Fat-and-Oil Industry - 2017" from the news line of the conference.
