THE WORLD'S CROPS.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 119, 4 February 1926, Page 7

THE WORLD'S CROPS.

PROSPECTS FOR HARVEST. The August number of the International Crop Report and Agricultural Statistics o£ the International Institute of Agriculture furnishes the following information on the harvest prospects for several of the more important products:

Wheat, rye, barley, oats. —The new production data now to hand, taking into account sundry revisions communicated by the Governments, together with information on crop conditions from countries which have not forecasted their yields, make it clear that the production of European countries is on a plentiful 9eale, especially for wheat and rye. This is also the case in North Africa, and a fairly good outturn is anticipated in Canada. In the United States, on the other hand, the results of the wheat and rye crops are poor; and in the Asiatic producing centres the aggregates are below those of recent years .owing to less favourable yields in India.

On the basis of data already available the total production of the northern hemisphere, as far as yet ascertained, comes out at 3.4 per cent, more than in 1924, but is 10.9 per cent, below the exceptionally heavy yield of 1923 for wheat, larger by 37. S per cent, than 1924, and about, as in 1923 for rye; larger than last year by 14.6 per cent., and very nearly equal to 1923 for barley; 1.8 per cent, less than 1924 and 2.5 per cent, less than 1923 for oats. It should be noted that these percentages are calculated from totals still incomplete, as they represent a group of countries that produced last year slightly over 70 per cent, of the wheat, about 35 per cent, of the rye, 55 per cent, of the barley, and a little over 60 per cent, of the oats grown in the northern heimlnhere. Among the countries still absent from the list, the most important cereal growers are the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, France, Germany, the (Serb-Croat-Slovene State and Czecho-iSlovakia. In. these countries the aggregate wheat and rye crops are expected to be larger than in 1924, and possibly may compare well with those of 1923; thus it may well be that this year’s out-turn will exceed that of 1924 by a larger percentage than is apparent from the data already to hand.