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LN BALKAN COUNTRIES PRODUCTION MUCH BELOW NORMAL. EFFECTS OF FLOODING & HARD WINTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.30 p.m.) BELGRADE. July 26. The newspaper “Politika” says this year’s wheat crop will be catastrophic, probably thirty per cent smaller than last year’s. It is expected to produce 200,000 truckloads, whereas 245,000 are required for home consumption. The - shortage of maize is already felt, although Yugoslavia normally is an exporter of maize. Reserves of maize have been depleted as a result of an increase in home consumption and also of large deliveries to the Axis. The Rumanian wheat crops are reported to be twenty per cent smaller than last year’s. The poor crop in the Balkans is mostly duo to extensive flooding and a hard winter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1940, Page 6
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