FAS/Moscow forecasts Russia’s 2014 production of its three major oilseed crops (sunflowerseeds, soybeans, rapeseed) at 13.1 million metric tons (MMT), a 4 percent decrease from Russia’s record oilseed crop in 2013. Area sown to these three major oilseed crops is forecast to remain the same as in 2013 (10.1 million hectares), but production of sunflowerseeds, which comprise over 70 percent of the total of these three crops, will decrease due to a reduction in planted area, and a lower yield forecast.
