
	food outlook	No.3, September 2005
	global information and early warning system on food and agriculture(GIEWS)

HIGHLIGHTS

Roundup

Basic food commodities

Other relevant agricultural commodities

Ocean freight rates

Fertilizers

Statistical Appendix

	TABLE A1. World cereal production (million tonnes)
	TABLE A1 (cont.)
	TABLE A2. World imports of cereals (million tonnes)
	TABLE A2 (cont.)
	TABLE A3. World exports of cereals (million tonnes)
	TABLE A3. (cont.)
	TABLE A4. Cereal supply and utilization in main exporting countries (million tonnes)
	TABLE A5. World cereal stocks¹(million tonnes)
	TABLE A6. Selected export prices of cereals and soybeans (US$/tonne)
	TABLE A7. Wheat and maize price indices
	TABLE A8. Price indices and selected export prices for rice
	TABLE A9. Price indices and selected international prices for oilcrop products
	TABLE A10. Wheat and maize futures prices ( US$/tonne)
	TABLE A11. Ocean freight rates for wheat (US$/tonne)
	TABLE A12. Selected international commodity prices
	TABLE A13. Selected international meat prices
	TABLE A14. Fertilizer spot price ranges (bulk f.o.b., US$/tonne)

STATISTICAL NOTE

Statistical Appendix

TABLE A1. World cereal production (million tonnes)

	Wheat			Coarse Grains
	2003	2004 estimate	2005 forecast	2003	2004 estimate	2005 forecast
ASIA	244.9	253.6	262.7	220.6	229.5	231.5
Bangladesh	1.3	1.1	1.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
China¹	86.5	92.0	95.0	126.5	140.4	139.5
India	65.1	72.1	72.0	37.8	31.9	34.0
Indonesia	-	-	-	10.9	11.2	11.7
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	13.4	14.0	15.0	4.8	4.4	4.4
Japan	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.2
Kazakhstan	11.5	9.9	10.7	3.3	2.4	2.4
Dem. People’s Rep. of Korea	0.2	0.2	0.2	1.9	1.9	1.9
Korea, Republic of	-	-	-	0.3	0.3	0.4
Myanmar	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.9	0.8	0.9
Pakistan	19.2	19.5	21.1	2.5	3.3	3.0
Philippines	-	-	-	4.6	5.4	5.5
Saudi Arabia	2.1	1.6	1.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Thailand	-	-	-	4.4	4.4	4.5
Turkey	19.5	20.7	20.2	10.7	11.7	11.9
Viet Nam	-	-	-	2.9	3.5	2.9
AFRICA	21.3	21.7	18.9	91.5	88.6	89.9
North Africa	17.1	17.2	14.0	12.7	12.8	9.3
Egypt	6.8	7.2	8.2	7.6	7.8	6.7
Morocco	5.1	5.5	2.5	2.8	2.9	1.2
Sub-Saharan Africa	4.2	4.6	4.9	78.8	75.8	80.6
Western Africa	0.1	0.1	0.1	36.1	34.0	35.7
Nigeria	0.1	0.1	0.1	19.2	19.7	20.1
Central Africa	-	-	-	2.8	2.9	2.9
Eastern Africa	2.3	2.6	2.5	22.9	21.5	23.0
Ethiopia	1.6	1.8	1.8	7.6	8.4	8.5
Sudan	0.4	0.5	0.4	5.6	3.4	4.1
Southern Africa	1.8	1.9	2.3	16.9	17.3	19.0
Madagascar	-	-	-	0.2	0.2	0.2
South Africa	1.5	1.7	2.0	10.2	10.3	13.0
Zimbabwe	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.9	0.9	0.7
CENTRAL AMERICA	2.7	2.4	3.0	32.5	33.4	32.6
Mexico	2.7	2.4	3.0	28.6	29.7	28.8
SOUTH AMERICA	23.6	25.1	21.4	80.4	74.5	72.0
Argentina	14.6	16.0	13.0	19.2	18.7	23.6
Brazil	6.0	5.7	5.2	50.5	44.8	37.5
Colombia	-	-	-	1.5	1.7	1.7
NORTH AMERICA	87.4	84.6	83.7	302.0	346.6	313.2
Canada	23.6	25.9	24.7	26.6	26.7	25.3
United States of America	63.8	58.7	59.0	275.4	319.9	287.9
EUROPE	154.3	217.8	204.0	197.3	239.5	208.0
Bulgaria	2.0	4.0	3.3	1.8	3.4	2.1
European Union²	91.0	137.3	123.7	95.8	152.3	130.2
Hungary³	2.9	5.9	5.2	5.8	11.1	10.2
Poland³	7.9	9.9	9.0	15.6	19.7	16.9
Romania	2.5	7.8	7.3	10.6	16.2	11.5
Russian Federation	34.0	45.3	46.1	30.2	29.8	29.0
Ukraine	4.3	16.5	17.6	15.5	19.1	16.4
OCEANIA	26.5	20.7	20.3	15.7	11.2	11.1
Australia	26.1	20.4	20.0	15.1	10.6	10.6
WORLD	560.6	625.9	614.1	939.9	1 023.3	958.3
Developing countries	267.0	279.0	280.0	409.3	411.2	408.5
Developed countries	293.6	346.9	334.1	530.7	612.1	549.8

¹ Including Taiwan Province.

² Up to 2003 15 member countries, from 2004 25 member countries.

³ From 2004 included in EU 25.

Note: Totals computed from unrounded data.

TABLE A1 (cont.)

	Rice (paddy)			Total Cereals
	2003	2004 estimate	2005 forecast	2003	2004 estimate	2005 forecast
ASIA	532.6	546.7	555.0	998.0	1 029.8	1 049.2
Bangladesh	39.3	38.0	39.8	40.6	39.1	41.0
China¹	162.3	180.5	181.6	375.3	412.9	416.1
India	132.4	128.0	129.0	235.3	231.9	235.0
Indonesia	52.1	54.1	53.0	63.0	65.3	64.7
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	2.9	3.1	3.3	21.1	21.5	22.7
Japan	9.7	10.9	10.6	10.8	12.0	11.7
Kazakhstan	0.2	0.2	0.2	15.1	12.6	13.4
Dem. People’s Rep. of Korea	2.2	2.4	2.5	4.3	4.4	4.5
Korea, Republic of	6.2	6.7	6.5	6.5	7.1	6.9
Myanmar	23.1	23.4	24.5	24.2	24.3	25.6
Pakistan	7.3	7.5	7.5	29.0	30.3	31.6
Philippines	14.2	14.5	14.8	18.8	19.9	20.3
Saudi Arabia	-	-	-	2.3	1.8	1.4
Thailand	27.2	23.9	27.0	31.6	28.3	31.5
Turkey	0.4	0.4	0.4	30.6	32.8	32.5
Viet Nam	34.5	36.1	37.0	37.4	39.6	39.9
AFRICA	18.2	19.1	19.9	131.0	129.4	128.7
North Africa	6.2	6.4	6.4	36.0	36.3	29.7
Egypt	6.2	6.4	6.4	20.7	21.3	21.3
Morocco	-	-	-	8.0	8.5	3.8
Sub-Saharan Africa	12.0	12.7	13.5	95.0	93.0	99.0
Western Africa	7.6	8.0	8.4	43.8	42.1	44.2
Nigeria	3.4	3.5	4.0	22.6	23.3	24.2
Central Africa	0.4	0.4	0.4	3.2	3.3	3.4
Eastern Africa	0.9	1.1	1.0	26.1	25.1	26.5
Ethiopia	-	-	-	9.3	10.2	10.3
Sudan	-	-	-	5.9	3.9	4.5
Southern Africa	3.1	3.3	3.7	21.9	22.5	24.9
Madagascar	2.8	3.0	3.4	3.0	3.2	3.6
South Africa	-	-	-	11.7	12.0	15.1
Zimbabwe	-	-	-	1.0	1.0	0.8
CENTRAL AMERICA	2.6	2.4	2.5	37.8	38.3	38.1
Mexico	0.3	0.3	0.3	31.6	32.4	32.1
SOUTH AMERICA	20.0	23.3	23.8	124.0	123.0	117.3
Argentina	0.7	1.1	1.0	34.4	35.7	37.7
Brazil	10.4	12.8	13.2	66.9	63.3	55.9
Colombia	2.5	2.7	2.6	4.1	4.4	4.4
NORTH AMERICA	9.1	10.5	10.4	398.4	441.7	407.2
Canada	-	-	-	50.1	52.6	50.0
United States of America	9.1	10.5	10.4	348.3	389.1	357.2
EUROPE	3.3	3.4	3.5	354.9	460.7	415.4
Bulgaria	-	-	-	3.8	7.4	5.5
European Union²	2.7	2.8	2.7	189.4	292.5	256.6
Hungary³	-	-	-	8.8	17.0	15.4
Poland³	-	-	-	23.4	29.6	25.9
Romania	-	-	-	13.1	23.9	18.9
Russian Federation	0.5	0.5	0.6	64.6	75.6	75.6
Ukraine	0.1	0.1	0.1	19.9	35.7	34.1
OCEANIA	0.4	0.6	0.3	42.6	32.4	31.8
Australia	0.4	0.5	0.3	41.6	31.5	30.9
WORLD	586.1	606.0	615.3	2 086.7	2 255.2	2 187.7
Developing countries	562.9	580.0	590.0	1 239.2	1 270.2	1 278.4
Developed countries	23.2	26.0	25.4	847.5	985.0	909.3

¹ Including Taiwan Province.

² Up to 2003 15 member countries, from 2004 25 member countries

³ From 2004 included in EU 25.

Note: Totals computed from unrounded data.

TABLE A2. World imports of cereals (million tonnes)

	Wheat (July/June)¹			Coarse Grains (July/June)
	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast
ASIA	41.4	49.9	45.2	59.3	58.3	57.8
Bangladesh	2.0	2.3	2.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
China	4.0	8.4	5.0	6.4	7.0	7.2
Taiwan Province	1.0	1.1	1.0	5.0	4.8	4.8
Georgia	0.6	0.9	0.6	-	-	-
India	-	0.1	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.1
Indonesia	4.7	4.6	4.3	1.4	1.0	0.6
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	0.5	0.2	0.2	1.7	2.9	3.1
Iraq	2.0	2.7	3.0	0.3	0.2	0.2
Israel	1.0	1.5	1.5	2.0	1.9	1.6
Japan	5.6	5.5	5.6	20.3	19.8	19.8
Dem. People’s Rep. of Korea	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.2
Korea, Republic of	3.3	3.9	3.8	9.6	8.8	9.0
Malaysia	1.4	1.4	1.4	2.4	2.5	2.5
Pakistan	0.2	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.1
Philippines	3.0	3.0	3.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Saudi Arabia	0.1	0.1	0.6	7.9	8.0	7.9
Singapore	0.3	0.3	0.3	-	-	-
Sri Lanka	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Syria	0.2	0.2	0.2	1.8	2.0	1.7
Thailand	1.1	1.0	1.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Yemen	2.0	1.9	2.2	0.3	0.2	0.3
AFRICA	25.4	28.8	29.3	13.8	15.6	16.3
North Africa	15.0	16.7	17.1	8.8	10.6	10.7
Algeria	3.5	4.5	5.0	2.1	2.1	2.3
Egypt	6.9	7.7	6.6	4.1	4.9	5.0
Morocco	2.4	2.1	2.8	1.0	1.6	1.7
Tunisia	0.7	0.9	1.2	0.8	1.2	1.0
Sub-Saharan Africa	10.4	12.1	12.2	5.0	5.0	5.6
Côte d'Ivoire	0.3	0.3	0.3	-	-	-
Ethiopia	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.1	-	-
Kenya	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.2	1.0
Nigeria	2.4	3.0	3.4	0.1	0.1	0.1
Senegal	0.3	0.3	0.3	-	-	-
Sudan	1.1	1.3	1.1	0.1	0.2	0.1
South Africa	0.7	1.2	1.1	0.6	0.3	0.2
CENTRAL AMERICA	7.2	7.4	7.3	12.4	13.5	13.9
Cuba	1.0	1.0	1.1	0.3	0.3	0.3
Dominican Rep.	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.8	0.9	0.9
Mexico	3.6	3.7	3.6	8.7	9.4	10.0
SOUTH AMERICA	11.0	10.3	11.0	5.8	6.2	6.4
Brazil	5.6	5.0	5.5	0.7	1.0	1.2
Chile	0.4	0.1	0.4	0.9	0.8	0.7
Colombia	1.2	1.3	1.2	2.2	2.3	2.2
Peru	1.4	1.4	1.5	0.9	1.2	1.3
Venezuela	1.4	1.5	1.5	0.6	0.4	0.4
NORTH AMERICA	1.4	1.5	1.8	5.0	4.2	4.8
Canada	0.1	-	-	2.5	1.9	2.6
United States of America	1.3	1.5	1.8	2.4	2.3	2.2
EUROPE	17.5	10.4	10.4	12.2	5.3	5.1
Belarus	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3
European Union²	5.9	7.1	7.0	7.7	3.4	3.2
Poland³	0.8	-	-	0.7	-	-
Romania	2.1	0.3	0.2	0.4	-	0.1
Russian Federation	1.1	1.1	1.2	0.9	0.8	0.8
Ukraine	3.6	0.1	0.1	0.3	-	-
OCEANIA	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1
New Zealand	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
WORLD	104.4	108.9	105.5	108.5	103.2	104.5
Developing countries	75.8	85.8	82.7	68.2	71.5	72.6
Developed countries	28.5	23.1	22.7	40.3	31.7	31.9

¹Including wheat flour in wheat grain equivalent, but excluding semolina. ² Excluding trade between the EU member countries. Up to 2003/04 15 member countries, from 2004/05 25 member countries. ³From 2004/05 included in EU 25.

Note: Totals computed from unrounded data.

TABLE A2 (cont.)

	Rice (milled)			Total Cereals¹
	2004	2005 estimate	2006 forecast	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast
ASIA	11.9	12.9		112.6	121.2
Bangladesh	0.8	1.2		2.9	3.6
China	0.9	0.7		11.4	16.1
Taiwan Province	0.2	0.2		6.2	6.0
Georgia	-	-		0.6	1.0
India	-	0.1		0.2	0.3
Indonesia	0.9	1.0		7.0	6.6
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	0.9	0.8		3.1	3.9
Iraq	1.2	1.2		3.5	4.1
Israel	0.1	0.1		3.1	3.5
Japan	0.7	0.7		26.6	26.1
Dem. People’s Rep. of Korea	0.6	0.7		1.1	1.4
Korea, Republic of	0.2	0.2		13.1	12.9
Malaysia	0.7	0.6		4.5	4.4
Pakistan	-	-		0.4	1.5
Philippines	1.0	1.8		4.1	4.9
Saudi Arabia	0.9	0.9		8.8	9.0
Singapore	0.3	0.3		0.6	0.7
Sri Lanka	0.2	0.1		1.4	1.2
Syria	0.2	0.2		2.2	2.4
Thailand	-	-		1.2	1.1
Yemen	0.3	0.3		2.6	2.4
AFRICA	8.6	8.2		47.7	52.6
North Africa	0.2	0.2		24.0	27.5
Algeria	0.1	0.1		5.7	6.7
Egypt	-	-		11.0	12.6
Morocco	-	-		3.5	3.8
Tunisia	-	-		1.5	2.1
Sub-Saharan Africa	8.4	8.0		23.7	25.1
Côte d'Ivoire	0.8	0.8		1.1	1.2
Ethiopia	-	-		0.7	0.7
Kenya	0.2	0.2		1.3	2.0
Nigeria	1.6	1.3		4.1	4.4
Senegal	0.7	0.8		0.9	1.0
Sudan	-	-		1.3	1.6
South Africa	1.0	0.9		2.4	2.4
CENTRAL AMERICA	2.1	2.2		21.7	23.1
Cuba	0.7	0.8		2.0	2.0
Dominican Rep.	0.1	0.1		1.2	1.3
Mexico	0.5	0.5		12.9	13.7
SOUTH AMERICA	1.1	0.7		18.0	17.3
Brazil	0.9	0.5		7.1	6.5
Chile	0.1	0.1		1.5	1.0
Colombia	0.1	0.1		3.5	3.6
Peru	0.1	-		2.4	2.6
Venezuela	-	-		2.0	1.9
NORTH AMERICA	0.8	0.7		7.2	6.4
Canada	0.3	0.3		2.9	2.2
United States of America	0.5	0.4		4.2	4.2
EUROPE	1.8	1.8		31.5	17.5
Belarus	-	-		0.6	0.5
European Union²	0.7	0.9		14.3	11.4
Poland³	0.1	-		1.5	-
Romania	0.1	0.1		2.6	0.4
Russian Federation	0.5	0.5		2.5	2.4
Ukraine	0.1	0.1		4.0	0.2
OCEANIA	0.4	0.4		0.9	1.1
New Zealand	-	-		0.3	0.4
WORLD	26.7	27.0	25.9⁴	239.5	239.2	235.8
Developing countries	22.0	22.5	21.4	166.0	179.8	176.7
Developed countries	4.7	4.5	4.4	73.5	59.3	59.1

¹ Trade in rice refers to the calendar year of the second year shown. ² Excluding trade between the EU member countries. Up to 2003/04 15 member countries, from 2004/05 25 member countries. ³From 2004/05 included in EU 25. ⁴Highly tentative.

Note: Totals computed from unrounded data.

TABLE A3. World exports of cereals (million tonnes)

	Wheat (July/June)¹			Coarse Grains (July/June)
	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast
ASIA	16.6	10.8	10.1	14.7	7.6	6.5
China²	2.1	0.3	0.4	11.3	5.6	4.5
India	5.0	1.5	0.3	0.8	0.3	0.3
Indonesia	-	-	-	0.1	0.1	0.1
Japan	0.4	0.4	0.4	-	-	-
Kazakhstan	5.4	3.9	4.4	0.5	0.2	0.3
Myanmar	-	-	-	0.1	0.1	0.1
Pakistan	0.2	0.1	0.2	-	-	-
Syria	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.3	0.1	0.1
Thailand	-	-	-	0.7	0.5	0.3
Turkey	0.8	2.0	1.5	0.1	0.1	-
Viet Nam	-	-	-	-	-	-
AFRICA	0.6	0.5	0.6	2.4	2.7	3.7
Egypt	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ethiopia	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nigeria	-	-	-	0.1	0.1	0.1
South Africa	0.2	0.1	0.3	1.1	1.1	2.4
Sudan	-	-	-	0.2	0.1	0.1
Uganda	-	-	-	0.4	0.4	0.4
CENTRAL AMERICA	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.2
SOUTH AMERICA	8.4	12.7	7.6	17.0	16.5	15.5
Argentina	6.8	12.4	7.4	9.9	12.9	14.3
Brazil	1.4	-	-	6.2	2.8	0.6
Paraguay	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.6	0.6	0.3
Uruguay	-	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
NORTH AMERICA	47.3	42.7	42.0	54.6	56.7	59.0
Canada	15.3	14.5	15.5	3.5	4.2	4.5
United States of America	32.0	28.2	26.5	51.1	52.4	54.5
EUROPE	13.8	26.5	29.7	11.8	16.4	14.1
Bulgaria	0.2	0.7	0.6	0.1	1.1	0.6
Czech Rep.³	-	-	-	0.3	-	-
European Union⁴	9.0	13.0	14.5	4.0	4.8	5.0
Hungary³	0.5	-	-	0.4	-	-
Romania	-	0.1	0.5	0.2	1.8	1.4
Russian Federation	4.0	7.9	8.5	3.3	1.1	1.0
Ukraine	0.1	4.4	5.2	2.8	6.7	5.1
OCEANIA	17.0	15.8	15.0	5.0	6.5	5.5
Australia	17.0	15.8	15.0	5.0	6.5	5.5
WORLD	104.2	109.7	105.5	105.8	106.5	104.5
Developing countries	19.6	19.5	13.2	32.8	25.6	23.2
Developed countries	84.6	90.1	92.3	73.1	80.9	81.3

¹ Including wheat flour in wheat grain equivalent, but excluding semolina.

² Including Taiwan Province.

³From 2004/05 included in EU 25.

⁴ Excluding trade between the EU member countries. Up to 2003/04 15 member countries, from 2004/05 25 member countries.

Note: Totals computed from unrounded data.

TABLE A3. (cont.)

	Rice (milled)			Total Cereals¹
	2004	2005 estimate	2006 forecast	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast
ASIA	21.2	20.8		52.5	39.2
China²	1.0	0.8		14.4	6.8
India	3.6	4.2		9.3	6.0
Indonesia	-	-		0.1	0.1
Japan	0.2	0.2		0.6	0.6
Kazakhstan	-	-		5.9	4.1
Myanmar	0.1	0.2		0.3	0.3
Pakistan	1.9	2.5		2.1	2.6
Syria	-	-		1.3	0.9
Thailand	10.1	7.8		10.8	8.3
Turkey	-	-		0.9	2.1
Viet Nam	4.1	4.5		4.1	4.5
AFRICA	0.8	1.0		3.8	4.3
Egypt	0.8	1.0		0.8	1.0
Ethiopia	-	-		-	-
Nigeria	-	-		0.1	0.1
South Africa	-	-		1.2	1.2
Sudan	-	-		0.2	0.1
Uganda	-	-		0.4	0.4
CENTRAL AMERICA	0.1	-		0.8	0.6
SOUTH AMERICA	1.2	1.4		26.6	30.6
Argentina	0.2	0.3		16.9	25.6
Brazil	-	0.1		7.6	2.9
Paraguay	-	-		0.7	0.8
Uruguay	0.6	0.7		0.7	0.9
NORTH AMERICA	3.1	3.6		105.0	102.9
Canada	-	-		18.7	18.7
United States of America	3.1	3.6		86.2	84.2
EUROPE	0.3	0.2		25.9	43.2
Bulgaria	-	-		0.3	1.8
Czech Rep.³	-	-		0.3	-
European Union⁴	0.3	0.2		13.2	18.0
Hungary³	-	-		0.9	-
Romania	-	-		0.2	1.9
Russian Federation	-	-		7.3	9.0
Ukraine	-	-		2.9	11.1
OCEANIA	0.1	0.1		22.1	22.4
Australia	0.1	0.1		22.1	22.3
WORLD	26.7	27.0	25.9⁵	236.7	243.2	235.8
Developing countries	23.1	23.0	21.6	75.5	68.1	57.9
Developed countries	3.6	4.0	4.3	161.2	175.1	177.9

¹ Trade in rice refers to the calendar year of the second year shown.

² Including Taiwan Province.

³From 2004/05 included in EU 25.

⁴ Excluding trade between the EU member countries. Up to 2003/04 15 member countries, from 2004/05 25 member countries.

⁵Highly tentative.

Note : Totals computed from unrounded data.

TABLE A4. Cereal supply and utilization in main exporting countries (million tonnes)

	Wheat¹			Coarse Grains²			Rice (milled basis)
	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast	2003/04	2004/05 estimate	2005/06 forecast
	UNITED STATES (June/May)			UNITED STATES			UNITED STATES (Aug./July)
Opening stocks	13.4	14.9	14.7	30.9	28.8	58.8	0.8	0.8	1.2
Production	63.8	58.7	59.0	275.4	319.9	287.9	6.4	7.4	7.3
Imports	1.3	1.5	1.9	2.5	2.2	1.9	0.5	0.4	0.5
Total Supply	78.5	75.1	75.6	308.8	350.8	348.6	7.7	8.6	8.9
Domestic use	32.4	31.7	32.3	226.2	240.6	235.2	3.7	3.9	4.0
Exports	31.2	28.7	26.3	53.8	51.4	56.0	3.3	3.5	3.8
Closing stocks	14.9	14.7	17.0	28.8	58.8	57.4	0.8	1.2	1.1
	CANADA (August/July)			CANADA			THAILAND (Nov./Oct.)³
Opening stocks	5.7	6.1	8.2	3.2	4.2	5.5	4.9	3.3
Production	23.6	25.9	24.7	26.6	26.7	25.3	18.0	15.8
Imports	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.2	2.5	2.9	0.0	0.0
Total Supply	29.3	32.0	32.9	31.9	33.4	33.7	22.9	19.1
Domestic use	7.5	9.2	8.4	23.0	23.9	24.5	9.5	9.4
Exports	15.7	14.6	16.8	4.7	4.1	4.7	10.1	7.8
Closing stocks	6.1	8.2	7.7	4.2	5.5	4.4	3.3	2.0
	ARGENTINA (Dec./Nov.)			ARGENTINA			CHINA (Jan./Dec.)^{3 4}
Opening stocks	2.1	2.0	0.7	1.1	1.4	0.8	73.7	59.2
Production	14.6	16.0	13.0	19.2	18.7	23.6	111.3	123.7
Imports	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.9	0.7
Total Supply	16.6	18.0	13.7	20.2	20.1	24.5	185.9	183.6
Domestic use	5.9	5.8	5.6	7.2	8.3	8.9	125.7	126.1
Exports	8.7	11.5	7.5	11.7	11.0	14.5	1.0	0.8
Closing stocks	2.0	0.7	0.6	1.4	0.8	1.1	59.2	56.6
	AUSTRALIA (Oct./Sept.)			AUSTRALIA			PAKISTAN (Nov./Oct.)³
Opening stocks	2.9	6.1	6.0	1.7	2.8	1.7	0.4	0.6
Production	26.1	20.4	20.0	15.1	10.6	10.6	4.8	5.0
Imports	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Total Supply	29.1	26.5	26.0	16.8	13.4	12.3	5.2	5.5
Domestic use	5.1	5.2	5.8	7.3	6.6	6.8	2.8	2.7
Exports	17.9	15.3	14.8	6.7	5.1	4.5	1.9	2.5
Closing stocks	6.1	6.0	5.5	2.8	1.7	1.1	0.6	0.4
	EU (July/June)⁵			EU⁵			VIET NAM (Nov./Oct.)³
Opening stocks	15.0	10.5	24.0	18.0	14.4	22.7	4.9	4.9
Production	90.9	137.3	123.7	95.8	152.3	130.2	23.0	24.1
Imports	5.9	7.1	7.0	7.7	3.4	3.2	0.0	0.0
Total Supply	111.9	154.9	154.7	121.5	170.1	156.1	27.9	29.0
Domestic use	93.2	117.7	118.5	106.1	142.6	134.8	19.0	19.4
Exports	9.2	13.2	14.7	4.0	4.8	5.0	4.1	4.5
Closing stocks	9.5	24.0	21.5	11.3	22.7	16.3	4.9	5.1
	TOTAL OF ABOVE			TOTAL OF ABOVE			TOTAL OF ABOVE
Opening stocks	39.1	39.6	53.6	54.9	51.5	89.7	84.7	68.7
Production	219.0	258.2	240.4	431.9	528.2	477.6	163.6	176.0
Imports	7.2	8.6	8.9	12.3	8.2	8.0	1.4	1.1
Total Supply	265.3	306.4	302.9	499.2	587.9	575.2	249.7	245.8
Domestic use	143.9	169.6	170.6	369.9	421.9	410.3	160.7	161.4
Exports	82.8	83.2	80.1	80.9	76.3	84.7	20.3	19.2
Closing stocks	38.6	53.6	52.3	48.4	89.7	80.3	68.7	65.2

¹ Trade data include wheat flour in wheat grain equivalent. For the EU semolina is also included.

² Argentina (December/November) for rye, barley and oats, (March/February) for maize and sorghum; Australia (November/October) for rye, barley and oats, (March/February) for maize and sorghum; Canada (August/July); EU (July/June); United States (June/May) for rye, barley and oats, (September/August) for maize and sorghum.

³ Rice trade data refer to the calendar year of the second year shown.

⁴ Including Taiwan province.

⁵ Excluding trade between the EU member countries. Up to 2003/04 15 member countries, from 2004/05 25 member countries.

Note: Totals computed from unrounded data.

TABLE A5. World cereal stocks¹(million tonnes)

	Crop Years ending in:
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005 estimate	2006 forecast
TOTAL CEREALS	633.7	602.3	577.3	487.3	415.7	463.9	430.6
Wheat	248.1	245.5	237.5	204.0	161.5	172.7	163.3
held by:
- main exporters²	50.2	52.8	49.0	39.1	38.6	53.6	52.3
- others	197.9	192.7	188.5	164.9	122.9	119.1	111.0
Coarse Grains	232.7	206.0	195.7	162.9	149.7	192.8	172.4
held by:
- main exporters²	78.5	77.0	70.0	54.9	48.4	89.7	80.3
- others	154.2	129.0	125.7	108.0	101.3	103.2	92.2
Rice (milled basis)	153.0	150.8	144.2	120.5	104.5	98.3	94.9
held by:
- main exporters²	102.0	100.0	94.2	84.7	68.7	65.2	64.4
excl. China³	8.2	9.4	10.8	11.0	9.5	8.6	8.8
- others	51.0	50.8	50.0	35.8	35.8	33.1	30.4
Developed Countries	166.6	162.2	169.5	144.8	124.0	184.7	172.1
Australia	5.0	6.1	10.0	4.9	9.0	7.9
European Union⁴	34.5	32.0	31.1	33.7	21.5	47.4
Canada	13.5	14.1	10.3	8.9	10.3	13.8
Hungary⁵	2.2	1.5	2.0	1.4	1.0	-
Japan	6.2	6.0	5.7	5.4	4.9	4.8
Poland⁵	3.8	2.2	3.0	3.1	2.6	-
Romania	3.7	0.4	2.5	2.0	1.2	4.9
Russian Federation	4.9	6.5	13.5	12.5	7.3	9.1
South Africa	1.8	2.9	1.9	3.8	3.5	4.0
Ukraine	2.2	2.3	5.2	5.1	2.9	4.1
United States	75.6	77.4	67.4	45.1	44.4	74.7
Developing Countries	467.2	440.2	407.8	342.5	291.8	279.2	258.5
Asia	429.3	405.2	369.4	309.2	252.0	237.8
China³	311.2	281.1	249.2	210.2	164.1	158.0
India	57.4	62.3	60.5	40.4	31.8	27.3
Indonesia	8.6	7.4	5.0	5.7	6.0	5.7
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	4.3	4.1	4.9	4.4	3.4	2.6
Korea, Republic of	3.3	3.0	3.2	3.1	2.8	2.5
Pakistan	8.6	9.3	6.6	2.9	1.9	2.2
Philippines	1.9	2.2	1.9	2.2	1.8	2.2
Syria	3.7	3.0	3.8	3.9	4.0	3.8
Turkey	8.3	8.7	7.8	8.0	7.7	6.8
Africa	23.2	21.5	21.9	19.9	21.5	23.0
Algeria	2.2	2.1	2.1	2.6	2.8	3.4
Egypt	4.3	4.3	4.3	3.6	2.9	3.5
Ethiopia	0.3	0.9	0.3	0.6	0.1	0.1
Morocco	3.7	1.9	1.9	1.8	3.1	4.5
Nigeria	1.7	2.2	2.1	2.1	1.8	1.5
Tunisia	1.9	1.8	1.9	1.5	1.8	2.0
Central America	6.7	6.3	6.7	5.5	6.0	6.4
Mexico	4.9	4.5	4.7	3.7	4.2	4.9
South America	7.7	6.9	9.5	7.7	12.0	11.8
Argentina	1.8	1.6	2.3	3.2	3.5	1.7
Brazil	2.8	1.7	3.6	1.5	5.5	7.0

¹ Stock data are based on an aggregate of carryovers at the end of national crop years and do not represent world stock levels at any point in time.

² The major wheat and coarse grains exporters are Argentina, Australia, Canada, the EU and the United States. The major rice exporters are China (including Taiwan Province), Pakistan, Thailand, the United States and Viet Nam. See Table A.4 for country details.

³ Including Taiwan Province.

⁴Up to 2003/04 15 member countries, from 2004/05 25 member countries.

⁵From 2004/05 included in EU 25.

Note: Based on official and unofficial estimates. Totals computed from unrounded data.

TABLE A6. Selected export prices of cereals and soybeans (US$/tonne)

	Wheat			Maize		Sorghum	Soybeans
Period	US No.2 Hard Red Winter Ord. Prot.¹	US Soft Red Winter No.2¹	Argentina Trigo Pan²	US No.2 Yellow¹	Argentina²	US No.2 Yellow¹	US No.1 Yellow¹
Annual (July/June)
2001/2002	127	113	119	90	89	95	182
2002/2003	161	138	145	107	102	112	222
2003/2004	161	149	154	115	109	118	305
2004/2005	154	138	123	97	90	99	238
Monthly
2004 – September	155	139	126	97	95	101	219
2005 – April	148	132	129	97	84	95	243
2005 – May	151	135	133	94	87	100	250
2005 – June	146	131	133	98	91	106	267
2005 – July	148	130	144	105	100	113	267
2005 – August	157	129	142	99	98	108	247
2005 – September	167	128	136	97	97	98	226
Weekly
2005 – August V	162	129	142	95	96	105	233
2005 – September I	159	na	140	na	99	na	na
2005 – September II	168	129	137	101	98	95	230
2005 – September III	169	127	135	98	96	98	228
2005 – September IV	173	127	133	93	93	101	220

¹ Delivered US Gulf ports.

² Up River f.o.b.

Sources: International Grain Council and USDA.

TABLE A7. Wheat and maize price indices

	Wheat¹	Maize²
Period	(1997/98-1999/00=100)	(1997/98-1999/00=100)
Annual (July/June)
2000/2001	97	87
2001/2002	99	91
2002/2003	121	108
2003/2004	119	116
2004/2005	118	98
Monthly
2004 – August	108	105
2005 – January	123	97
2005 – February	121	95
2005 – March	122	101
2005 – April	114	98
2005 – May	115	95
2005 – June	117	99
2005 – July	114	106
2005 – August	114	99

¹ The wheat price index has been constructed based on the IGC wheat price index, rebased to

July/June 1997/98-1999/00 = 100. The IGC wheat price index is composed of a simple average of

following price quotations, converted to an index, with base July/December 1986 = 1000:

a Australian Standard White, f.o.b. Eastern States - second position quoted.

b Canadian No.1 CWRS 13.5%, f.o.b. St. Lawrence.

c Canadian No.1 CWRS 12.5%, f.o.b. Vancouver.

d United States No.2 HRW (Ordinary), Gulf.

e United States No.2 SRW, Gulf.

f United States No.2 DNS 14%, f.o.b. Lakes

g United States No.2 Western White, f.o.b. Pacific

² United States Maize No.2 Yellow (delivered Gulf ports) with base July/June, 1997/98-1999/00 = 100.

Sources: FAO, International Grain Council, USDA.

TABLE A8. Price indices and selected export prices for rice

	Export Prices ( US$ per tonne)				FAO Indices ( 1998-2000=100)
Period	Thai 100% B¹	Thai broken²	US Long grain³	Pakistani Basmati⁴	Total	Indica		Japonica	Aromatic
Period	Thai 100% B¹	Thai broken²	US Long grain³	Pakistani Basmati⁴	Total	High quality	Low quality	Japonica	Aromatic
Annual (January/December)
2001	177	135	264	332	74	74	74	76	69
2002	197	151	207	366	72	73	75	67	74
2003	201	151	284	358	82	79	81	82	91
2004	244	207	372	486	104	101	110	104	96
Monthly
2004 – September	240	207	341	n.a.	102	101	110	100	92
2005 – April	300	226	316	472	106	107	121	93	95
2005 – May	298	220	318	472	102	105	113	91	94
2005 – June	290	213	310	472	101	103	112	91	92
2005 – July	280	208	304	473	100	101	110	93	92
2005 – August	287	214	291	475	101	102	111	93	94
Weekly
2005 – September I	285	215	291	475	)
2005 – September II	289	217	302	475	) 102	103	112	93	94
2005 – September III	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	475	)
2005 – September IV	292	219	313	475	)

¹ White rice, 100% second grade, f.o.b. Bangkok, indicative traded prices.

² A1 super, f.o.b. Bangkok, indicative traded prices.

³ US No.2, 4% brokens f.o.b.

⁴ Basmati: ordinary, f.o.b. Karachi.

Note: The FAO Rice Price Index is based on 16 rice export quotations. 'Quality' is defined by the precentage of broken kernels, with high (low) quality referring to rice with less (equal to or more) than 20 percent brokens. The Sub-Index for Aromatic Rice follows movements in prices of Basmati and Fragrant rice.

Sources: FAO for indices. Rice prices: Jackson Son & Co. (London) Ltd. and other public sources.

TABLE A9. Price indices and selected international prices for oilcrop products

	FAO Indices (1990-92=100)			International Prices (US$ per tonne)
Period	Oilseeds	Edible/Soap Fats/Oils	Oilcakes/ Meals	Soybeans1	Soybean Oil2	Palm Oil3	Soybean Cake4	Rapeseed Meal5
Annual (October/September)
1996/97	118	134	133	298	536	545	278	174
1997/98	109	154	116	256	634	641	197	138
1998/99	89	125	82	209	483	514	149	104
1999/00	84	91	89	209	355	337	180	124
2000/01	82	81	96	201	335	272	188	141
2001/02	86	101	102	201	411	357	175	129
Semestral
2002/03 – Oct.- Mar.	103	124	106	241	543	442	186	133
2002/03 – Apr.- Sep.	104	123	110	246	535	414	197	149
2003/04 – Oct.- Mar.	140	144	138	351	653	512	274	199
2003/04 – Apr.- Sep.	121	140	126	294	612	464	240	157
2004/05 – Oct.- Mar.	111	134	115	264	539	420	205	133

Latest period
2005 – Apr.- Aug.	117	132	123	289	551	417	221	126

¹ Soybeans (US, No.2 yellow, c.i.f. Rotterdam).

² Soybean oil (Dutch, fob ex-mill).

³ Palm oil (Crude, c.i.f. North West Europe).

⁴ Soybean cake (Pellets, 44/45%, Argentina, c.i.f. Rotterdam).

⁵ Rapeseed meal (34%, Hamburg, f.o.b. ex-mill).

Note: The FAO indices are calculated using the Laspeyres formula; the weights used are the average export values of each commodity for the 1990-92 period. The indices are based on the international prices of five selected seeds, ten selected oils and fats and seven selected cakes and meals.

Sources: FAO and Oil World.

TABLE A10. Wheat and maize futures prices ( US$/tonne)

	December		March		May		July
	this year	last year	this year	last year	this year	last year	this year	last year
Wheat
August 23	122	122	127	126	129	127	130	128
August 30	119	116	124	120	126	122	127	123
September 6	118	117	123	120	125	121	127	122
September 13	121	124	126	127	128	129	130	128
September 20	118	121	123	125	126	127	128	127
September 27	120	118	125	122	128	124	130	125
Maize
August 23	88	96	92	99	94	101	96	103
August 30	86	93	90	96	92	98	94	100
September 6	87	87	91	92	94	95	96	97
September 13	83	87	87	90	90	93	93	95
September 20	81	84	86	88	89	90	92	93
September 27	80	82	85	86	88	89	91	91

Source: Chicago Board of Trade.

TABLE A11. Ocean freight rates for wheat (US$/tonne)

	From US Gulf ports to:
Period	EU¹	CIS Black Sea^{1 2}	Egypt¹	Bangladesh¹
Annual (July/June)
2001/2002	11.00	40.97	15.00	18.50
2002/2003	12.50	40.97	16.67	22.50
2003/2004	28.27	41.89	36.96	48.50
2004/2005	34.50	41.18	46.50	65.42
Monthly
2004 – August	32.00	39.00	44.00	49.00
2005 – February	35.00	42.00	47.00	70.00
2005 – March	38.00	44.00	49.00	80.00
2005 – April	38.00	44.00	48.00	80.00
2005 – May	32.00	39.00	43.00	70.00
2005 – June	29.00	37.00	40.00	60.00
2005 – July	23.00	33.00	36.00	50.00
2005 – August	21.00	31.00	30.00	43.00

¹ Size of vessels: EU over 40 000 tonnes; CIS 20 000-40 000 tonnes; Egypt over 30 000 tonnes; Bangladesh over 40 000 tonnes.

² Excludes CIS and the United States flag vessels.

Note: Estimated mid-month rates based on current chartering practices for vessels ready to load three to four weeks ahead.

Source: International Grains Council.

TABLE A12. Selected international commodity prices

	Currency and Unit	Effective Date	Latest Quotation	1 month ago	1 year ago	Average 2000-2004
Sugar (I.S.A. daily price)	US cents per lb	09.09.05	10.22	10.20	7.48	7.59
Coffee (I.C.O. daily price)	US cents per lb	09.09.05	80.22	87.43	58.66	54.32
Cocoa (I.C.C.O. daily price)	US cents per lb	09.09.05	72.78	66.78	69.27	64.03
Tea (FAO Composite Price)	US$ per kg	31.07.05	1.63	1.58	1.63	1.60
Cotton (COTLOOK, index “A” 1-3/32")	US cents per lb	29.07.05	54.15	54.55	55.0	55.68
Jute “BWD” f.o.b. Mongla at sight	US$ per Ton	08.09.05	400	400	290	279.13
Wool (64's, London)	Pence per kg	29.07.05	417	396	436	422

TABLE A13. Selected international meat prices

	FAO index of international meat prices (1990-92=100)	Indicative international meat prices (US$ per tonne)

		Chicken¹	Pork²	Beef³	Lamb⁴
Annual
1995	99	922	2 470	1 947	2 621
1996	96	978	2 733	1 741	3 295
1997	96	843	2 724	1 880	3 393
1998	83	760	2 121	1 754	2 750
1999	84	602	2 073	1 894	2 610
2000	85	592	2 083	1 957	2 619
2001	84	645	2 077	2 138	2 912
2002	82	579	1 830	2 127	3 303
2003	90	614	1 884	2 112	3 885
2004	102	749	2 073	2 513	4 599
2005	107^5/	782^5/	2 300^5/	2 633^6/	4 568^6/
Monthly
2005 – January	107	725	2 143	2 541	4 762
2005 – February	109	707	2 330	2 588	4 785
2005 – March	109	720	2 376	2 639	4 797
2005 – April	106	754	2 327	2 607	4 720
2005 – May	107	795	2 296	2 678	4 538
2005 – June	108	863	2 418	2 660	4 390
2005 – July	103	908	2 209	2 706	4 225
2005 – August	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	2 646	4 328

¹ Chicken parts, United States export unit value.

² Frozen pork, United States export unit value.

³ Manufacture cow beef, Australia, c.i.f. prices to the United States.

⁴ Lamb frozen whole carcass, New Zealand, wholesale prices London.

⁵ Index: January-July 2005.

⁶Index: January-August 2005.

TABLE A14. Fertilizer spot price ranges (bulk f.o.b., US$/tonne)

	August 2005	September 2005 ¹	September 2004	Change from last year ² (percentage)
Urea
Baltic	208 - 212	212 - 216	225 - 229	-5.7
Persian Gulf	237 - 241	238 - 245	236 - 241	1.3
Ammonium Sulphate
eastern Europe	82 - 85	83 - 87	85 - 87	-1.2
Diammonium Phosphate
North Africa	260 - 264	261 - 265	235 - 240	10.7
US Gulf	260 - 264	260 - 264	224 - 228	15.9
Triple Superphosphate
North Africa	185 - 187	185 - 188	182 - 185	1.6
US Gulf	201 - 201	201 - 201	194 - 195	3.3
Muriate of Potash
Baltic	151 - 174	155 - 178	112 - 127	39.3
Vancouver	145 - 184	148 - 190	118 - 143	29.5

¹Up till 12 September 2005

² From mid-point of given ranges.

Source: Compiled from Fertilizer Week and Fertilizer Market Bulletin.


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Statistical Appendix

TABLE A1. World cereal production (million tonnes)

TABLE A1 (cont.)

TABLE A2. World imports of cereals (million tonnes)

TABLE A2 (cont.)

TABLE A3. World exports of cereals (million tonnes)

TABLE A3. (cont.)

TABLE A4. Cereal supply and utilization in main exporting countries (million tonnes)

TABLE A5. World cereal stocks1(million tonnes)

TABLE A6. Selected export prices of cereals and soybeans (US$/tonne)

TABLE A7. Wheat and maize price indices

TABLE A8. Price indices and selected export prices for rice

TABLE A9. Price indices and selected international prices for oilcrop products

TABLE A10. Wheat and maize futures prices ( US$/tonne)

TABLE A11. Ocean freight rates for wheat (US$/tonne)

TABLE A12. Selected international commodity prices

TABLE A13. Selected international meat prices

TABLE A14. Fertilizer spot price ranges (bulk f.o.b., US$/tonne)

TABLE A5. World cereal stocks¹(million tonnes)