FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 09/01 - POLAND (10 September)
Polish cereal production has recovered significantly in 2001 after last year’s reduced crop reflecting favourable weather conditions, which allowed a return to normal yields. The total wheat crop is estimated at 9.4 million tonnes, some 10 percent up from 2000. The country’s important rye crop has also recovered significantly to over 5 million tonnes, compared to just 4 million tonnes last year, and barley output is put 29 percent up at about 3.6 million tonnes . In aggregate, total cereal production is estimated at about 26 million tonnes, some 16 percent up from 2000 and above the average of the past five years