FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 09/98 - PERU ( 3 September)
Harvesting of the 1998 wheat crop is well advanced. Prospects are good and a slightly above- average output is tentatively forecast. Harvesting of the maize (yellow) crop is also underway. Production is expected to recover and an aboveaverage output, similar to 1997, is forecast. Paddy production, by contrast, should decline from 1997 record level and a near average output is anticipated. The outlook is good for the important potato crop and about 1.9 million tonnes have been collected in the first six months of 1998, some 10 percent above last year’s output for the same period.
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