FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 06/99 - LITHUANIA (29 May)
Spring grain planting is well advanced but crop emergence and establishment was slowed by cold weather this spring. Growing conditions for the winter-planted wheat and rye crop have been satisfactory to date. Given difficulties in the livestock industry and the accumulation of stocks, the area sown to grains in 1999 is not expected to increase substantially from the 1.2 million hectares last year. Normal weather could result in somewhat better yields and output is tentatively projected at 2.9 million tonnes compared to 2.8 million tonnes in 1998.
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