BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (9 February)
Latest reports indicate that winter cereals, mainly wheat and barley, are in satisfactory conditions. Summer crops, mainly maize, are the most important in the country’s cropping calendar. Last year a record cereal harvest of 1.56 million tonnes was collected, which is some half a million tonne up on the harvest in 2003. Last year’s cereal harvest includes some 250 000 tonnes of wheat, 65 000 tonnes of barley and 1.2 million tonnes of maize. Despite a record harvest last year, aggregate cereal import requirement for the 2004/05 marketing year is estimated at 330 000 tonnes, including 50 000 tonnes in food aid requirement.