PARIS: France's farm ministry on Tuesday cut its estimate of the country's 2018 sugar beet crop to 40.4 million tonnes from 41.1 million last month as it lowered expected yields.
The reduced sugar beet crop estimate was 12.7 percent below last year's volume but 8.8 percent above the five-year average.
In a monthly crop report, the ministry also cut its estimate of the 2018 grain maize crop, excluding seeds, to 12.2 million tonnes from 12.4 million last month. That put the crop 14.6 percent below last year's level and 15.5 percent below the five-year average.
Estimated soft wheat output was cut to 34.2 million tonnes from 34.55 million last month, putting the crop down 6.5 percent compared with last year's output.
For rapeseed, the ministry slightly raised its estimate of the 2018 crop to 4.9 million tonnes from 4.8 million pegged last month.
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