A record heatwave in July across most Ukrainian regions may reduce the 2024 corn harvest by about 6 million metric tons, the Ukrainian producers’ union said this weekend.
Denys Marchuk, the deputy head of the Ukraine’s major agricultural producers group, the Ukrainian Agrarian Council, said the corn yield in many regions may fall by about 30 percent due to the poor weather.
The Ukrainian grain traders union UGA also cut their forecast last week for Ukraine’s 2024 corn harvest to 23.4 million tons from 29.6 million tons in 2023 due to the heatwave.
The government is less pessimistic and the acting farm minister said last month the late crop yield might drop up to 15 percent in most regions.
