web Photo: Adel Yahya/IRIN SANAA, 25 February 2010 (IRIN) - Cereal production in Yemen has declined for the second consecutive year due mainly to a lack of rainfall, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Abdulmalik al-Thawr. Yemen's grain production, including sorghum and wheat, declined to 675,000 tons in 2009 from 715,000 in 2008, according to the government's Central Statistics Organization (CSO). While aggregate cereal production in 2009 was only slightly lower than in...
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