Bulgaria’s wheat, maize harvests drop in 2022
Bulgaria harvested lower quantities of wheat and maize last year compared to 2021, by 11.4% and 24.2% respectively, mainly due to lower average yield, the agriculture ministry said.
By contrast, the country’s sunflower seed harvest increased 2.8% year-on-year in 2022 as the total area put to the plant was 9% larger than in 2021, the agriculture ministry said in a data release published on Thursday.
The average yield of wheat harvest dropped by 11.6% year-on-year, while the average yield of maize was 17.6% lower. The average yield for sunflower seed was also lower last year, by an annual 5.5%, the data showed.
In 2022, the total area harvested for wheat was just 0.3% larger than in 2021, while the total area harvested for maize dropped by 8%.
Details of the 2022 harvest and yield for the three crops are available below:
Crop |
Total harvest (t) |
annual change in production |
area harvested (ha) |
average yield (t/ha) |
wheat |
6,343,707 |
-11.4% |
1,208,371 |
5.25 |
maize |
2,498,083 |
-24.8% |
524,529 |
4.76 |
sunflower |
2,054,180 |
2.8% |
913,618 |
2.25 |
Source: Ministry of Agriculture.
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