Yugoslavia

Key Yugoslav Wheat Area Harvests 52 Pct of Crop
Reuters, June 28, 2000

Around 52 percent of the total 327,000 hectares under wheat in Yugoslavia's key producing region of Vojvodina has been harvested so far, state news agency Tanjug reported on Wednesday. Months of bad weather, with floods followed by drought and high temperatures, as well as shortages of fertiliser and poor machinery were expected to make this year's harvest one of the worst in the past 10 years. Optimistic forecasts put average wheat yield at 3.0 tonnes per ha, while pessimists see yields at 2.0 tonnes, both well below average yields of some 4.2 tonnes in the early 1990s.