Basic food commodities

摘要

FAO's first forecast for world wheat production in 2005 is 612 million tonnes, 15 million tonnes lower than the record in 2004 but still well above the average of the past five years. Although the global wheat area may exceed that of the previous year, yields are expected to return closer to the five-year average after exceptionally high levels in 2004. At the regional level, only in Asia is output forecast to increase, but not sufficiently to offset reductions expected in all other regions.