MOLDOVA (20 September)
In Moldova cereal harvesting, except maize, is complete with an estimated aggregate harvest of about 2.27 million tonnes from an area of 916 000 hectares. At this level cereal harvest is about 36 percent up on the drought reduced harvest in 2003 but some 10 percent above the five year average production. Aggregate cereal exports, wheat and maize, during the 2004/05 marketing year is forecast at 200 000 tonnes. Last year cereal imports totalled some 259 000 tonnes following crop failure.