The US Department of Agriculture has once again revised down, by 900,000 tonnes this time, the estimate for Romania’s maize\/corn production in the 2024-2025 marketing year. This comes after a 400,000 tonnes downward adjustment operated in July amid severe drought in the region.<\/p>\n
The country’s maize production could thus drop to 7.8 million tonnes, the lowest level in 11 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The best performance for the past decade was 18.6 million tonnes ( in 2018). In contrast, Romanian farmers harvested only 5.9 million tonnes of maize in 2012, Economica.net<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n In 2023, Romania’s maize production was 8.5 million tonnes harvested from 2,373,000 hectares.<\/p>\n At the level of the entire European Union, the maize production for the 2024\/2025 marketing year is estimated at 59 million tonnes, down 1.5 million tonnes (2%) compared to the previous estimate, 4% less compared to last year, and 8% below the average of the last five years.<\/p>\n