Winners and losers in cereal production from El Nino
Paris (AFP) May 15, 2014 - Food experts on Thursday drew up the first global map of how the El Nino weather phenomenon affects production of four key cereals. El Nino improves the global yield of soybeans by 2.1 to 5.4 percent, but changes the yields of maize, rice and wheat by -4.3 percent to +0.8 percent, they said. When El Nino goes into reverse, a process called La Nina, the change in global average yields of ... more

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