MARKET NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 2016

The meeting of the IOC Statistics Working Group was held on 3 October. The figures reported here for 2015/16 take into account the data provided by Members but are as yet provisional since the crop year has just ended. The resultant data indicates a tonnage of 3 152 000 t for world production (28% or 694 000 t more than in 2014/15), 2 963 500 t for consumption (+4%), and 802 000 t and 791 000 t respectively for imports and exports. IOC member countries produce a total of 2 957 000 t, which represents 94% of the world total for this crop year