Normal forecast for Indian monsoon rains, northern hemisphere
Dry conditions for up to six months in parts of Australia’s east coast are set to curb wheat crop yields for a third straight year in the world’s No 4 exporter of the grain, a private US-based weather forecaster said on Wednesday.
Australia has been grappling with successive years of drought that have wilted crops and left some farmers struggling to stay in business.
Declines in Australian wheat production in the 2019/20 crop year could buoy global prices that on Wednesday struck their lowest in 10 months.
“Over the next three-to-six months we expect drier-than-normal weather in parts of Queensland and New South Wales,” said Kyle Tapley, senior agricultural meteorologist at Radiant Solutions, formerly MDA Earthsat.
“This is an area of concern as it is already dry,” Tapley told Reuters on the sidelines of a grains conference in Singapore. Australia’s wheat production fell to an 11-year low during the 2018/19 season, according to the country’s chief commodity forecaster.
Output totalled 17.3 million tonnes, down from 21.24 million tonnes a year earlier, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences said in its final tally for the crop.
Australian farmers will begin sowing wheat for the 2019/20 season in April.
Source; Reuters Singapore
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