FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 01/00 - ISRAEL (7 February)
Recent beneficial rains improved prospects for the 2000 wheat and barley crops, to be harvested from April. Domestic production of wheat in normal years covers less than one- fifth of total requirement, the rest being imported commercially. Wheat production in 1999 was estimated at 152 000 tonnes, about 10 percent below the previous year, due to severe drought which affected several countries in the Near East. Imports of cereals in 1999/2000 (July/June) are forecast at some 2.6 million tonnes.
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