Drought has affected 1.16 mln ha of agricultural areas in Romania this year

Drought affected this year an area of 1.16 million hectars of agricultural areas, a drop of 10-15 percent compared with 2015, with the most affected ares being corn and sunflower cultures, while the rye, barley and two-rowed barley productions registered a growth of 15 percent in production up to 2.4 million tones, said on Friday the minister of Agriculture, Achim Irimescu, quoted by business-review.eu.   Irimescu said that the damages for farmers ...

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