FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops and Shortages 06/02 - URUGUAY (30 May)
Planting of the 2002 wheat and barley crops, for harvesting at the end of the year, is about to start and the area planted for each is expected to remain close to last year’s. Harvesting of the 2002 maize crop has been completed and an above-average output of some 260 000 tonnes, similar to 2001, is provisionally estimated. By contrast, output from the recently harvested paddy crop is provisionally estimated at a low 800 000 tonnes, largely as a consequence of reduced plantings with respect to the previous year.