News Updates MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS Turkey looks to be having a very good year for grain crops, as wheat, barley and corn production are all expected to be up over last year and up over the five-year average. Wheat production is expected to be just shy of 22 MMT, which is up about 10 percent; barley at 7.9 MMT is up by 11 percent; and corn at just below 5 MMT is up by close to 8 percent. Wheat imports will still be needed, but the volume is forecasted to drop from 4.5 MMT to about 3.8 MMT. Turkey will continue to be a major exporter of wheat flour and durum wheat, with exports just about equaling wheat imports at just over 3.8 MMT.The wheat crop in Turkey is said to be up due to a change in government policy that has motiv...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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