The monitoring period covers the harvest of winter wheat from July and the subsequent sowing of the 2015-16 crop. Maize harvest begins from September. During this monitoring period, cropped arable land dropped 2% compared with the last five years’ average. Overall, the temperature increased over average (+0.8°C) while rainfall dropped 27%. Due to the dry weather, the potential biomass accumulation decreased 9% compared with the average of the last five years.

During this monitoring period, as shown in the NDVI development graph, the  condition of crops was below the last five years' average from July and close to average from the end of September. In west, south and northeast of Romania including Timis, Hunedoara, Mehedinti, Botosani and Neamt, NDVI seriously departed from average, which will negatively affect the winter wheat and maize yield there. In the center and southeast of Romania, including Alba, Cluj, Giurgiu, and Calarasi, showed that the crop penology was advanced due to