WORLD'S WHEAT CROP.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 2 November 1925, Page 4

WORLD'S WHEAT CROP.

INCREASED PRODUCTION. The latest returns compiled by the International Institute or Agriculture at Rome are dated September li and confirm tbe favourable opinion previously expressed concerning the crops of the current season. (Figures in table represent thousand metric tons.) Average 1919 to 1925. 1924. 1923. Europe (21 countries) 26,060 20,090 21.550 Canada and United States 29.670 30.850 32.180 Asia (4 countries). 0,920 10,810 10,010 North Africa (4 countries) 2,940 2,320 2.320 Total 6.5.500 64.100 66,360 Soviet Union 15.020 10.390 Grand totnl. 50.610 74,400 The 3 2 countries where the production of 1925 is already ascertained represent between them about 90 per cent of the Northern Hemisphere wheat crops; the data of France and or a few minor producing: countries (Austria. Belgium. PorUigal, etc.) are still unavailable; in 1924 these countries rurnished about nine million metric tons. The large increase in European production, partly owing to the extension or the area under wheat, but more definitely to the ravourable season, and apart from the Russian contribution, has compensated lor tbe reduced out-turns or North America and of Asiatic countries.. Nearly every country in Europe has a plentiful crop. Counting wheat and rye together, the percentage or increase is still greater a comparison' of the two crops, showing 130,000 metric tons in 1925, against 107,360 in 1924.