{"id":237781,"date":"2025-07-04T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237781\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:56:09","slug":"russia-faces-agricultural-meltdown-as-grain-harvests-plummet-by-12-7-million-tonnes-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237781\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia faces agricultural meltdown as grain harvests plummet by 12.7 million tonnes | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia<\/a> is facing a looming “food catastrophe”<\/a> after grain harvests were reported to have fallen by 12.7 million tonnes in the period up to July. Data from Russia<\/a>‘s Ministry of Agriculture showed grain and leguminous harvests amounted to just 3.8 million tonnes in the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n

This is 4.3 times less than for the same period in 2024 (16.5 million tonnes), according to Roman Nekrasov – a senior official for plant growing at the ministry. In more bad news<\/a> for the sector, grain yields were also said to have fallen by as much as 24%. The yield was put at 31 centners per hectare (c\/ha), which is 10 c\/ha lower than last year (41c\/ha).<\/p>\n

In the context of grain harvests, a centner is a unit of weight, specifically 100 kilograms, or approximately 220 pounds.<\/p>\n

It’s used to measure the yield of grain crops, often expressed as “centners per hectare” (c\/ha), indicating the amount of grain harvested from a specific area of land.<\/p>\n

Nekrasov admitted the Kremlin<\/a> was concerned about the decline, and blamed bad weather for the crisis.<\/p>\n

“The general trend of declining crop yields, of course, worries us,” he told journalists.<\/p>\n

“Therefore we draw attention to the fact that we need to work on this position separately.”<\/p>\n

A Ukrainian economist commented on the situation, saying: “A food catastrophe is looming in Russia<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Under the existing forecasts, Russia<\/a> will collect 129.5 million tonnes of grain, including 82.5 million tonnes of wheat, in 2025.<\/p>\n

In 2024, grain production stood at 128.5 million tonnes and 82.5 million tonnes of wheat, which was one of the lowest levels in recent years.<\/p>\n

Many farmers are turning their back on wheat production<\/a> as profits plunge and income cases turn negative.<\/p>\n

The Russian Grain Union has repeatedly complained that Kremlin policy – such as state price regulation on the domestic market and export duties on grain exports – has undermined profitability.<\/p>\n

Arkady Zlochevskiy, the union’s president, said: “Investment activity in the wheat production has fallen to zero.”<\/p>\n

He added that 125 million tonnes is the maximum the Russian grain industry<\/a> could produce this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia is facing a looming “food catastrophe” after grain harvests were reported to have fallen by 12.7 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,1203,660,332,92675,92676,16,15,333,10781],"class_list":{"0":"post-237781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-kremlin","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russia-agriculture","14":"tag-russia-grain-harvests","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-wheat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114795786087398284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}