date:Feb 17, 2014
Harvesting of the 2013 coarse grains was completed by the end of last year, while the small irrigated crop wheat crop will be harvested in March.
Cereal production in 2013, including wheat, is forecast by FAO at about 2.9 million tonnes, which is only about half of the previous years good output and about 38 percent below the last five years average, reports FAO.
Poor rainfall over much of the country, in terms of both distribution and total amount, was the main cause of the low 2013 crop prod