Corn yield drops to 8.47 million tons in 2016
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
This year’s corn yield of 8.47 million tons dropped slightly compared to 2015, by 5.6%, despite the summer drought and dropped by 25% against the record crop of 2014 of 11.3 million tons, according to operational data of MADR of November 15. An overall corn yield of 8.98 million tons was reported for 2015. The average crop obtained this year for corn on 2.17 million ha harvested by November 15 was 3.9 tons, on the rise ...