Bulgaria expects to harvest between 6.1 and 6.3 million tons of wheat and over 800,000 tons of barley this year, caretaker agriculture minister Georgi Tachov has said citing preliminary data.
The crop will be reaped from over 1.1 million hectares put to wheat, which translates into an average yield of more than 5,000 kilograms per ha and 160,000 ha put to barley.
Tachov noted that grain silos in the country currently had about 80% free capacity.
In 2023, Bulgaria harvested some 6.59 million tons of wheat, which represented an annual rise of 3.9% due to a higher average yield, according to previously disclosed information. (UkrAgroConsult)