India is expected to produce around 315, 500 metric tons of coffee during the 2012-13 crop year, according to the state-run Indian Coffee Board.
World output of arabica coffee will shrink 4.3% to 79.6 million bags in the current crop year, which began in October, according to the London-based International Coffee Organization.
The combination of plentiful monsoon rains and high minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice means the country is forecasting an all-time-high grain production of 250.42 million tons in the crop year ending June 30.
The federal government announces an opium policy every year which sets out the terms and conditions subject to which licenses for the cultivation are given out to individual growers, the areas where cultivation will be allowed, the prices at which the crop will be purchased by the government and the minimum qualifying yield for a license in the next crop year.
Blame the drought conditions that blazed through the corn and soybean crop this year.
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Furthermore, a poor potato crop this year boosted input costs and should continue to be a headwind going forward.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Soviet Union harvested a bumper grain crop this year of 235-240 million metric tons, up over 10 percent from last year's 210 million metric tons.
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Next-generation GM crops could boost food grown, cut pesticide use, make crops more resistant to droughts like the one that crushed the US corn crop last year, even create crops that fertilize themselves from the air.
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Still, the group this week joined other animal producers in calling for a reduction in corn ethanol production mandates, saying pricing and availability of corn for feed is threatened by the combination of a small corn crop this year and the government mandate, which will use about four of every 10 bushels of corn.
For eight of them, crop yields the year after the drought did not fully rebound.
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Setton Farms told the FDA that it anticipates recalling about 1 million pounds of products nationally in the next few days, which covers its crop output last year.
These sorts of controversies crop up every year in Congress.
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"When the water drops a bit more, we'll be better able to do an assessment, but you can count on a very significant crop loss this year, " he says.
Jeremy Gutsche, the chief trend hunter at Trendhunter.com, notes that "Google search volume for archery has remained relatively constant" for archery over the years, but that's not to say it hasn't made a splash: He saw archery-infused fashion shoots crop up this year.
Unfortunately, though this year's grain crop was up 5% over last year's, North Korea is now more dependent on foreign (mostly American, Chinese and South Korean) food aid than ever.
Wheat farmers whose crop was washed away need seed and fertiliser now if next year's crop is not to be lost, too.
For our crop of stocks this year, listed in the accompanying table, we followed the same methodology.
Like his rivals, ABC failed to deliver a break-out hit from a crop of first-year series better described as a colossal disappointment.
Texans in the rice business said they could probably stay afloat this year, thanks in part to crop insurance, but they worried about another year of interrupted irrigation water.
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The capital is also stocked with the kinds of treats they don't cover in Social Studies classes top-rate farmers' markets, modern American restaurants, like chef Ris Lacoste's Ris, and nightclubs that attract more than that tiresome crop of 23-year-old congressional aides.
Landowner Clinton Devon Estates, said the move would help rescue a 50-year-old crop of timber.
This year's crop of fish flies known as mayflies elsewhere seems to have been magnified, locals say.
His introduction on page 37 notes a few surprising characteristics of this year's crop.
Next year's crop is then planted directly into the mat, retaining more nutrients in the soil.
The three major sporting events in Asia this year produced their crop of champions.
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Jersey's potato crop will be delayed this year because of the poor weather.
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In the Rio Grande valley cotton farmers worried that the lack of sunshine would prevent this year's crop from flowering.
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