Drought in Australia will affect wheat and rice production

Introduction: Sydney, November 11 Sydney, November 11 news: due to the continuous drought in Australia, the wheat production forecast in eastern Australia has been greatly reduced, which makes it doubtful whether the Australian wheat production can reach a record this year On Tuesday, the government of New South Wales released forecast data, saying that the state's wheat production in 2003-04 (April to March) was 4.4 million tons and rice production was 550000 tons H6M according to a spokesman for the Australian Minister of agriculture, although the above-mentioned production forecast is higher than that of last year's sharp reduction due to the once-in-a-hundred-year drought, the wheat output is only 70% of the normal year, while the rice output is only 40% of the normal year The H6M NSW production data is also well below the Australian Department of agricultural resources and economy (ABARE) forecast In September, ABARE increased wheat production in NSW to 7.17 million tons, up from the previous forecast of 5.7 million tons It is much higher than the output of 1.95 million tons in 2002-03, which is close to the five-year average of 7.4 million tons In September, ABARE predicted that the wheat output in 2003-04 was 24.08 million tons, higher than 9.39 million tons a year ago, close to the historical record level of 24.65 million tons in 2001-02 Terry Xerox, chief production forecaster at H6M ABARE, said on Tuesday that no new forecast will be provided until the next one comes out on December 2 In November, 66.3% of New South Wales still suffered from drought, but the area affected by the drought was 12% less than last month, said Australian agriculture minister MacDonald 25% of the area is slightly dry, up 10% from October Since the beginning of October, H6M has not seen extensive rainfall in the state, and many areas of NSW are still struggling, with low sub surface soil moisture and reservoir water level The weather in October was also abnormal, with frost and severe hail from high temperature to the end of the month, causing great damage to crops in the Sydney Basin and the North Central Coast H6M wheat harvested in northern NSW is generally of high quality, but small grain size and poor yield limit the total yield Frost in the central and southern regions has caused a sharp decline in the per unit yield of rapeseed and wheat crops Water stocks in many areas may be at tight levels Because of the large amount of water used in summer, some farmers also use water to raise livestock At the end of October, the water level of the 10 main reservoirs in the state dropped from 12% to 54% compared with the highest water level H6M Australia is the second largest wheat exporter in the world and the main medium grain rice exporter H6M