The extent to which cereals production boomed in the European Union (EU) last year has been made starkly clear by a report from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency.
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It said that in 2004, 290 million tonnes were produced in the 25 countries now making up the EU, their highest collective production in ten years, and an increase of 24% over 2003. This was mainly due, it said, “to very favourable climatic conditions during the whole crop year”.
The sharpest rise was amongst the ten new eastern and southern EU member states, where production rose more than 40% on average, twice the increase for longer established members.
