Harvests of key cereal crops in Russia will decrease in 2026 compared to 2025

Harvests of key cereal crops in Russia at the end of 2026 will fall in comparison with the indicators for 2025. Interfax reports this with reference to the forecast of analysts from the industry company ProZerno.

This year's buckwheat harvest is expected to reach 794 thousand tons. For comparison, the harvest of this agricultural crop in 2025 was estimated at 926 thousand. The rice harvest, according to experts, will fall by about one and a half times - from 1.235 million to 833 thousand tons. Millet harvests, in turn, will decrease by 1.47 times - from 352 thousand to 240 thousand tons.

The head of ProZerno, Vladimir Petrichenko, named the impressive reduction in acreage as one of the main reasons for the gloomy forecast. Thus, buckwheat crops this year occupied 708 thousand hectares against 751 thousand in 2025, rice - 146 thousand against 201 thousand hectares, and millet - 160 thousand against 244 thousand hectares.

By mid-September, noted the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Oksana Lut, Russian farmers had collected a total of 120 million tons of grain. The overwhelming majority of the harvest was wheat - more than 90 million tons, she said. If in mid-July, according to the relevant minister, cleaning was lagging behind, then by the beginning of autumn the situation had improved.