Bulgaria Estimates 2011 Wheat Harvest at 3.9 Million Tons

Bulgaria expects to harvest 3.9 million metric tons of wheat this year, as the area sown with the crop is less than in 2010.

Bulgarian farmers have sown 2.58 million acres (1.04 million hectares) with wheat, down from 2.78 million acres last year, when the harvest was 4 million tons, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement yesterday.

The country has sown 445,000 acres with barley, compared with 625,000 acres last year, when the crop was 830,000 tons, the ministry said.

(Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-17/bulgaria-estimates-2011-wheat-harvest-at-3-9-million-tons.html)