Map of crop prospects and food supply situation

OCEANIA

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Unfavourable prospects for current crops
Food supply shortfall in current marketing year requiring exceptional assistance
Unfavourable crop prospects and food supply shortfall

OCEANIA: In Australia, wheat plantings are expected to increase this spring, but those for barley could decrease. Output of the minor 2002 summer coarse grains crops, to be harvested soon, is forecast to fall as a result of a decrease in plantings and the adverse weather during the growing period. In Cook Islands, the destructive fruit fly continues to pose a threat to the country's foodcrops. In Fiji, heavy rains and flooding in February resulted in considerable damage to sugar cane plantations.



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