LITHUANIA (9 February)
Winter cereals are reportedly in satisfactory conditions, which have been planted on 400 000 hectares, similar to planted area in the past five years. Winter and spring crops are equally important and aggregate cereal harvest in 2004 was estimated at 2.3 million tonnes, some 180 000 tonnes down on the year before. Last year’s harvest included some 790 000 tonnes of wheat, 970 000 tonnes of barley and 420 000 tonnes of rye. Aggregate cereal exports (mainly wheat) for the 2004/05 marketing year is estimated at 250 000 tonnes and imports for the same period is estimated at 264 000 tonnes.