11/03/2015

Drought to shrivel Ukrainian wheat harvest in 2016

Severe drought across half of Ukraine has hit winter sowing and could sharply reduce the country's 2016 wheat harvest. The drought, in which the central Dnipropetrovsk region suffered its driest autumn in 50 years, could lead to a 20 percent year-on-year fall in the wheat harvest, hitting exports from the world's sixth-largest wheat exporter.