51.   North Korea had hoped for a bumper harvest to ease its chronic food shortages.

52.   North Korean leaders had hoped for a bumper harvest this year to end their chronic shortages.

53.   Report says bumper harvest possible despite flooding devastation.

54.   Shandong and Hebei provinces in the north also report a bumper summer harvest.

55.   The bumper harvest has prompted the government to give farmers the choice of selling their grain to state or local market.

56.   The problem is most pronounced in the rural areas, where incomes have lagged and bumper harvests have driven market prices ever lower, accentuating the cycle of poverty.

57.   This year, the government prepared for a bumper harvest by taking the unusual step of letting state grain bureaus clear out stockpiles at below-market prices.

58.   Traders attributed the fall to improved supplies and the prospect of a bumper Brazilian harvest next year.

59.   Grain prices slipped on US markets in the wake of good weather forecasts, which heralded a bumper American harvest for spring wheat and maize crops.

60.   Grains prices continued to fall as bumper harvests in Europe and the United States beckoned on the horizon.