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In a crop report on Tuesday, the ministry kept unchanged its estimate of this year's soft wheat area at 5.0mn ha, up 2.9pc from last year.
It cut slightly its estimate of the 2019, rapeseed area to 1.31mn ha from 1.32mn seen last month, down 19.1pc on year.
For sugar beet, the ministry kept its area estimate at 455,000 ha, down 6.3pc on year.