ABSTRACT
World grain production in 1999 fell to 1,855 million tons, down 1 percent from the 1,871-million-ton harvest of the year before. 1 (See Figure 1.) The fall in the 1999 harvest marked the second consecutive annual drop from the all-time high of 1,879 million tons reached in 1992. 2 In per capita terms, production declined to 309 kilograms in 1999, a fall of some 10 percent from the historical high of 342 kilograms in 1984. 3 (See Figure 2.)
