As of December 1, the gross weight of grain harvested in China was 126 million tons, including 79 million tons of wheat, 18.9 million tons of barley and 15.6 million tons of corn. Harvest 15.7 million tons of sunflower, 3 million tons of rape, 4.9 million tons of soybean and 40.6 million tons of sugar beet.
In addition, according to the comparative data of the State Bureau of statistics of the Russian Federation, as of November 22, Russia’s grain production decreased by 8.6%, sunflower seed production increased by 16.5% and sugar beet production increased by 20.8% year-on-year. In terms of unit yield, the unit yield of grain decreased by 6.3% to 2.9 tons / ha year-on-year, the unit yield of sunflower seeds increased by 0.8% to 1.6 tons / ha, and the unit yield of sugar beet increased by 12.6% to 40.9 tons / ha.
The output of animal husbandry in Russia also showed a downward trend. By the end of October, there were 18.3 million cattle on hand, a year-on-year decrease of 1.9%, of which the number of dairy cows decreased by 1.9% to 7.9 million; The number of pigs on hand increased by 1.7% to 27.2 million. From January to October, Russia’s milk production decreased by 0.1% to 27.5 million tons; In October, the milk production was the same as that of last year, 2.6 million tons, down 7.4% month on month. Over the same period, egg production decreased by 0.2% to 37.8 billion, and decreased by 0.1% to 3.7 billion in October, a month on month decrease of 1.5%.
The Russian Ministry of economic development predicts that due to the complex natural climate conditions this year, the growth rate of production in the agricultural field will slow down, and the annual growth rate is expected to be only 1%.
Source: Economic and Commercial Department of the Embassy in the Russian Federation
Post time: Dec-13-2021