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Early production outlook for 2023 has shown that wheat crops prediction globally is looking at the outturn is anticipated at 784 million tonnes, reports NaijaAgroNet.In its latest Cereal Supply and Demand Brief, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) informed that its preliminary forecast for world wheat production in 2023, predicting a global outturn of 784 million tonnes, which would be the second highest on record though down from the previous year.
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Worldwide Cereal production now @2,640m tonnes
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has updated its forecast
on the worldwide cereal production as at the end of 2017 to stand at 2,640
million tonnes, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The forecast, NaijaAgroNet gathered, has been raised by 13.5
million tonnes since December, with coarse grains driving the bulk of the
increase, due largely to higher maize output expected in China, Mexico and the
European Union.
Also, FAO raised its 2017 production forecasts for wheat,
due to expectations of bigger harvests in Canada and the Russian Federation,
and for rice, following an upward revision in China.
NaijaAgroNet reports that projected cereal utilization in
the 2017/18 season was also raised, now up 1.4 per cent from 2016/17. Just as the
upward revision includes a notable jump for coarse grains, whose use for
livestock feed is forecast to reach an all-time high on the back of sizable
increases projected for Brazil, China, the EU and Mexico.
As cereal output, NaijaAgroNet report, is seen expanding
more than utilization, stocks are projected to rise above their already high
opening levels, leading to a comfortable world stocks-to-use ratio of 27.7
percent, the highest since 2001/02.
In a related development the international trade volumes, are
expected to contract slightly for all the major cereals except maize.
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Monday, September 12, 2016
Rice production breaks new record with 496m tonnes
The rice production globally is expected to hit a new record
this year at almost 496 million tonnes, reports NaijaAgroNet.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), this
is owing to favourable weather conditions in much of Asia and on more United
States (U.S.) farmers shifting to the crop as a result of its more attractive
relative price.
NaijaAgroNet also reports that FAO did not materially change
its forecast for world cereal utilization in the coming year, which is expected
to grow by 1.6 per cent, led by maize - and to some extent lower-quality wheat
supplies - used as animal feed.
The FAO trade forecast for cereals in 2016/17 has been
scaled up by almost 9 million tonnes on the back of abundant export availabilities of wheat and coarse grains.
On the coarse grain global output for 2016, NaijaAgroNet reports
that estimated 1,329 million tonnes, 2.1 per cent higher than in 2015, buoyed
by higher forecast maize output in several countries, in particular the U.S.
Further, NaijaAgroNet reports that the wheat output forecast
was also raised to 741 million tonnes, driven by large upward revisions to
projections for Australia, North America, India and the Russian Federation.
Russia is poised to become the world's largest wheat exporter in 2016/17,
overtaking the European Union, where wet weather has hampered this year's
crops.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Nigeria rice imports average 1.5m tonnes annually
Investigations have
revealed that between 2003 and 2013, Nigeria may have imported rice to the tune
of 17,206,077 tonnes with an average import at 1,564,188 million, NaijaAgroNet can
authoritatively report.
According to the Statistics Division of Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO), an intergovernmental organization of the United Nations
with over 194 member nations, the division’s mission, NaijaAgroNet gathered is to improve data collection and
dissemination for development and the fight against global hunger and
malnutrition.
These imports of
17,206,077 tonnes, NaijaAgroNet reports, came in the heels of against the total
production of 114.3 million tonnes within the period under review including both calculated and official data as at the time of
filing this report.
For the rice import in 2003, Nigeria recorded 1600701
tonnes, 1396692 in 2004, 1174071 in 2005, 974647 in 2006, 1215758 in 2007,
970787 in 2008, 1160671 in 2009 and 1882759 in 2010, while 2187419 was recorded
in 2011 followed by 2455202 a year later, just as 2187370 was the tonnes of
rice imported in 2013.
In addition, NaijaAgroNet gathered that bulk of the data were unearthed from aggregation and includes the
official, semi-official, estimated and or calculated data from the Nigerian
government by FAO.
The imported tonnes of rice, NaijaAgroNet investigations revealed
may have been "rice in milled equivalent."
Market watchers believed that despite the decline recorded by
IRERP that obviously what was gathered as official data, semi-official or even
aggregated were crossly in adequate considering the number of smuggled tonnes
and the nation’s craze for foreign products which is not alien to agriculture
produce.
This is despite the fact that most foreign rice imported into
Nigeria takes averagely three to five months to be shipped into the country,
therefore fortified thus missing relevant vitamins.
This much was what kept the cost of ‘foreign rice’ as its fondly
called locally high, even as there is allegations of such chemical used in
preserving the rice to have become instrumental to certain kind of cancer.
Noteworthy is that the
initiative on Increased Rice Production and Export Programme (IRPEP) report,
released in 2013 by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed that it recorded
some accomplishments.
These comprised of the
discovery that both national and international research institutes working in
Nigeria have developed over 52 rice varieties with potential yields of 28
tonnes of paddy per hectare and maturity periods ranging from 95 to 140 days.
IRPEP records also showed
increase in the areas cultivated from 2.2 million hectare (ha) in 1999 to 2.8
million ha in 2006 and 3.2 million ha in 2007; while an increase was recorded
in annual production from 3.3 million tonnes of milled rice in 2000 to 4.2
million tonnes in 2006, and 4.8 million tonnes in 2007. Although these
represented significant increases in output, IRPEP equally highlighted that the
targets of 6 million tonnes in 2005 and 9.8 million tonnes in 2007 were not
achieved.
NaijaAgroNet further quoted
IRPEP as stating that increase in productivity per hectare as a result of the
introduction of high-yielding NERICA rice variety and R-Box technology among
others brought about the reduction in rice importation from 2.0 million tonnes
in 2003 to less than 1.0 million tonnes in 2006 and 2007, thus, conserving
foreign exchange.
Remmy Nweke/ED, Ops
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