Romania reaps 8.4mn tonnes wheat crop in 2016

BUCHAREST: Romania reaped a bumper wheat crop of 8.4 million tonnes this year, 7 percent up from 2015 at a 10-year record high yield, Agriculture Minister Achim Irimescu said on Sunday.

Romania is a major wheat exporter and usually competes with France in export markets including Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer.

Irimescu told state news agency Agerpres average yields rose to 4.054 tonnes per hectare (ha) from 3.84 tonnes last year and that grains harvested had not been affected by drought. Romania put 2.08 million hectares under wheat.