The FINANCIAL — Rather difficult agro-climatic conditions observed in Ukraine during the autumn planting camapign, caused some reduction of winter rapeseed planted areas for the harvest-2016, to 626 thsd ha, a decrease of 29% compared with last year results (885 thsd ha), declared the analyst of APK-Inform Agency, Andrew Kupchenko on November 6 during his report at the conference “Fat-and-Oil Industry – 2015” in Odessa.
Also, the expert noted that to date, it is rather difficult to estimate the future harvest volumes of the oilseed in Ukraine, because during several recent years there were observed significant fluctuations of the losses results, which, for example, in 2012 reached 50%, in 2013 – 6%, and in the current season the index totaled 25%.
Thus, in terms of the optimistic forecast of winter rapeseed areas losses for the harvest-2016 (at 15%), and formation of the yield at the average level of 2.16 t/ha, the general harvest of the oilseed will reach 1.1 mln tonnes, down 35% compared with the current season (1.7 mln tonnes), said A.Kupchenko.
In addition, the speaker noted that winter rapeseed forms nearly 95% of the oilseed harvest volumes in Ukraine, and 32% of the planted areas are located in the zone of risky agriculture, which makes the announced forecast as fairly optimistic.
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