Russia's largest Black Sea farming region of Krasnodar started to record higher wheat yields this week after a decline a week earlier as harvesting gathered pace, the regional agriculture ministry said on Monday. Russia, one of the world's main wheat exporters via the Black Sea, is set to increase its wheat crop by 2 percent to 53 million tonnes in 2014/15, according to the latest Reuters poll.
As of June 30, Krasnodar region, the key region for wheat exports via the Black Sea, harvested 453,000 tonnes of winter wheat from 6 percent of the area, with yields of 5.42 tonnes per hectare, up 0.28 tonnes per hectare year-on-year, the ministry said in a statement. As of June 26 its wheat yields were quoted at 4.90 tonnes per hectare, down year-on-year. Across all grains, the region has already harvested 1.3 million tonnes from 15 percent of the area with yields at 5.28 tonnes per hectare, the ministry added.
