Washington News on October 18: the global agricultural output report released by USDA in October shows the expected sunflower seed output in Turkey in 2018/19 is 1.8 million ton, 100,000t higher than the predicted value in the previous month, and 300,000t higher than that in the previous year.

The harvest area of sunflower seeds is about 750,000ha., 25,000ha. higher than the predicted value in the previous month, and 7% up than that in the previous year. The precipitation during sunflower seed seedling is higher than average level. The irrigation water source is sufficient, and rainfall during growing and harvest period is in time.

The sunflower yield per unit area reaches the 2.4t/ha., which is a new high record and consistent with the predicted value in the previous month, and 8% higher than that in the previous year. The harvest started from August and usually lasted to October.