The 2021 Agricultural Year May Witness Doubled Grain Yield

Unlike last year, when agriculture was hit hard by the drought, the authorities and experts are making optimistic forecasts for 2021. If we talk strictly about crop production, then we can state an increase in the yield of major crops by 45% compared to last year, mold-street.com reports. This figure is equivalent to 2019, a very good agricultural year, said Vasile Sarban, head of the production policy department of the Ministry of Agriculture. The official forecasts say a major increase will be in corn harvest, by about 2.5 times (from 778 thousand tons in 2020 to about two million tons in 2021). According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the average yield per hectare will be higher and reach about 3.8 tons. Experts believe that despite the fact that we had a little snow last winter, due to heavy rains this spring, the moisture reserves in the soil exceed the annual norms. “We had a good germination capacity for cereals. This means ideal conditions,” said the director of the Balti Research Institute of Field Crops “Selekcia”. As for the gardens, the situation is still uncertain. Iurie Fale, director of the Moldova-Fruct Association, said that the next two weeks will make it clear as to the cherries and plums harvest, and in June it will be possible to predict the apple harvest. Nevertheless, Fale is convinced that this year will be better for gardeners, if only because we have avoided the spring frosts that were last year when low temperatures affected 70 percent of apricot orchards and 50 percent of peach orchards.