Romania posts record cereal production in 2017; wheat reaches all time high
Romania registered in 2017 a record harvest of cereals of 27.1 million tonnes, up 25 percent compared to 2016, wheat production climbing to an all-time high of over 10 million tonnes, according to a report of National Institute of Statistics (INS).
Cereals with significant shares in the area cultivated with grains in 2017 were: maize (46.3 percent), common wheat (39.5 percent) and barley (8.8 percent), according to the report.
The harvested production of wheat rose by 19 percent last year to 10.03 million t (from 8.4 million t in 2016), maize increased by 33 percent to 14.3 million t, while barley grew by 5 percent to 1.9 million t.
Last year, Romania was the fifth largest wheat producer among the 28 EU member states, with 6.6 percent of total EU wheat production, the second largest maize producer (22 percent) and the largest sunflower producer (28.1 percent).
Romania became during the last few years a large exporter of cereals in the Black Sea region mainly to Egypt and Middle-East countries.
In 2016, Romania exported around 7 million tonnes of wheat and 3.4 million tonnes of maize, according to the latest available data.
Source: Business Review – 2018
