The cultivation area of winter wheat in France has declined to its lowest level in 19 years. The reason for the collapse of crops is heavy rainfall last fall.
The sown area of winter wheat for the 2020 crop. Like in the UK and part of Germany, heavy rain fell in France in the fall, which significantly affected the wheat and barley crop.
The French Ministry of Agriculture calculated in December that the sown area of wheat in 2020 decreased by 5%. However, investors and analysts expected a double-digit decline. After the holidays, after improving weather conditions, farmers sowed about 120 thousand. Nevertheless, it was much less than expected by the French Ministry of Agriculture in December.
Among the Slavs, wheat grains symbolized prosperity and a happy life.
A new crop of French wheat in 2020 was initially estimated at 33.3 million tons after 39.5 million tons of wheat harvested last year.
So far, the French analytical company Sigma Conseil has estimated that by 2020 the yield will be 7.45 tons per hectare, which is the average for recent years, but added that it is too early to predict the impact of crop problems on yield.
This year, the French analytical company Strategy Grains estimated the area of wheat harvesting in Europe at less than 23.2 million, which will be 600 thousand less than during the harvest of 2019.
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