21.   Increased grain production can lead to lower domestic prices and make cassava less-competitive in feed rations.

22.   Liu also reported that Guangdong, Zhejiang and other economically advanced eastern provinces have reversed the trend of declining farmland for grain production.

23.   Record high temperatures and drought in Russia have already threatened grain production.

24.   Revised forecasts released Thursday by the International Grains Council point to a bigger recovery than previously expected in world grain production this season.

25.   Revised forecasts released Thursday by the International Grains Council point to little change in global grain production in the season just beginning.

26.   Russia is facing another drought that could severely harm grain production for a second year in a row, according to a report Wednesday.

27.   The Agriculture Ministry favors tighter control over the accounting for grain production, he said.

28.   The communist government, fearful of the famines and popular rebellions that have caused dynastic collapse, has vowed to maintain self-sufficiency in grain production.

29.   The downfall in grain production last year was largely explained by the drought and heavy rainstorms that swept across Ukraine last summer.

30.   The failure to pay farmers promptly for their crops has undermined efforts to expand grain production.