31.   Unusually severe summer flooding in recent years caused major damage, and prolonged drought this year devastated grain harvests.

32.   With another disappointing sugar harvest this year, some independent economists call that projection optimistic.

33.   He expected the Australian harvest this year to be better than the crop last year which had been hit by drought.

34.   Heavy rains drenched the parched plantations to such an extent that prices fell in the expectation of a bumper harvest this year.

35.   However, forecasters predict a record world harvest this year.

36.   In fact all of the major exporting countries reaped bumper harvests this year.

37.   Experts at trading house Czarnikow said that the market was little affected by the prospect of floods of new supplies after bumper harvests this year in several countries.

38.   Urgent measures are needed to rescue Russian agriculture after a disastrous harvest this year, a senior minister in charge of agriculture said here Friday.

39.   White sugar dived early this week, as investors offloaded holdings in the expectation of crashing prices after a record world harvest this year.

40.   Somalia is experiencing drought and farmers in its fertile Lower Shebelle region in the south are expecting little harvest this year.