This year’s agricultural production will be at least 30% lower than we expected, the president of the League of Agricultural Producers Associations of Romania (LAPAR) Gheorghe Albu said in an interview with RFI Romania.
“This year is an atypical year, in which we have not had any snow. Moreover, the temperatures have been high during the day, over 10 degrees, and in the evening temperatures were -3, -4 degrees,” he explained to Romania-Insider.com.
The lack of winter snow and the high temperatures for this season have had a negative impact on the cereal and oilseed crops sown in the autumn of 2019, and in some areas of the country the wheat tends to dry out, Ziarul Financiar reported on the same topic.
This is bad news for the local economy as weak crops usually have a negative impact on economic growth even if agriculture has a rather low share in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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[…] Producția agricolă a României va fi în acest an cu 30 la sută mai mică decât se așteptau fermierii la sfârșitul anului trecut. Estimarea îi aparține președintelui Ligii Asociațiilor de Producători Agricoli din România, Gheorghe Albu, citat de Transylvania Today. […]