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Romania's grain crops might reach rd.18-19M tonnes, in 2013
Romania's grain crops could reach about 18-19 million tomes , in 2013, whether everything goes well during the coming time span, Agriculture Ministry State Secretary Achim Irimescu told a conference on agricultural topics, on Monday.
He believes that boosting the animal breeding sector would lead to an efficient use of the next grain crop.
'I think, it would be very important to boost the zoothechny as a primary production, so that we no longer should export grains, but they should be efficiently made use of. In 2011, Romania was the fifth top grain exporter to Europe, and I am not too enthusiastic about it,' Agriculture Ministry official said.
The Romanian farmers said that the losses the grain production saw last year due to the drought, amounted to 2.5 - 3 billion euros, and the average crop per ha went up higher than 24 percent, namely up to 20.7 million tonnes, Romania preponderantly growing maize (49.8 percent) and wheat (36.8 percent) of the total cropland for grains. Romania got 11.6 million tonnes maize from 2.613 million ha, in 2011, ranking the first in the European Union in terms of cropland, and it came the second in terms of the production it obtained, after France, and this just because Romania's yield is lower.
Drought made situation tragic in 2012 when the yield for maize went twice lower, namely attaining 2,043 kg/ha, and the total production reached 5.473 million tonnes only.
Whereas the wheat crop reached over 7.103 million tonnes, from 1.928 million ha, in 2011, although the market estimated that the market's undeclared crop was much higher that year, the crop attained about 4.99 million tonnes, amounting to 5.3 million tonnes, in 2012, namely beneath the average figures scored during the past three years.
Statistical data say that last year drought caused the Romanian economy losses exceeding four billion euros, while the record worth over 19 billion euros from the local farming contributed to an economic growth of 2.5 percent, in 2011.