date:Nov 21, 2013
will drop by 3.5 percent to reach 13 million tons, nearly five percent of the global total. Changes to the country's rice and wheat outputs will be within one percent.
According to the bulletin, cold waves in the Northern Hemisphere and tropical storms in Southeast Asia are the two main environmental factors affecting this year's crops.
CropWatch is part of an initiative launched by the Group of Twenty (G20) that aims to assess global crop data using remote sensing and ground-based indicators