The quantified impact of the summer heat wave in Southeast Europe on domestic agriculture should be investigated based on data-based models as much as possible.

It added that, in the case of Hungary, according to satellite data, the JRC reduced yield expectations for corn by 14% and for sunflower by 9% based on mid-July data, compared to the estimates in June.

They revised their previous forecast of 7.47 tonnes per hectare for corn to 6.77 tonnes and from 3.01 tonnes for sunflowers to 2.73 tonnes.