FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 11/00 - URUGUAY (6 November)
Harvesting of the 2000 wheat crop is about to start and output is forecast to improve from the 1999 drought affected crop. Planting of the 2000/01 maize crop has started and enlarged plantings are anticipated from the previous year’s below-average level. Planting of the important paddy crop has started and the area planted is provisionally forecast to be close to the previous year’s slightly above-average level.
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