Rabat, May 16, 2012
Rabat, May 16, 2012
RABAT May 16 (Reuters)
Morocco’s wheat harvest is expected to reach 3.6 million tonnes this year, including 2.6 million tonnes of soft wheat, down by 40 percent from the wheat crop recorded a year earlier, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.
The durum wheat harvest is expected to stand at 1 million tonnes and that of barley at 1.2 million tonnes, the official MAP news agency said, quoting the ministry.
It is the ministry’s first breakdown by variety for a cereals harvest which it has said would fall 43 percent to 4.8 million tonne
