date:Feb 08, 2013
estimates in China, North America and the European CIS countries. But even at the new level, global cereal output would still be 2 per cent down on the 2011 record crop.
Early prospects for 2013 cereal production point to increased world wheat output. Contributing largely to this prospect is an estimated 4 to 5 per cent increase in the area under wheat in the European Union, where weather conditions have also been generally favourable so far.
But in the United States, the outlook is less favo