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

22.   People here are eating tapioca as they do not have a harvest this year.

23.   President Boris Yeltsin said Friday that Russia will have an excellent grain harvest this year, citing it as evidence that agricultural reforms were taking hold.

24.   Russia is facing another poor harvest this year because drought in southwest Russia is damaging some crops, officials said Thursday.

25.   Russia is facing another poor harvest this year because drought in western Russia is damaging some crops, an Agricultural Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

26.   Somalia has reported a bountiful harvest this year.

27.   Seoul officials said that North Korea will have a worse harvest this year than last year.

28.   Swamping of fertile farmland along the Yangtze River has scuttled hopes for a record harvest this year.

29.   The harvest this year was about as low as in other hunger-stricken years, Morton said.

30.   The grain harvest this year in Russia already is expected to be inadequate to local needs.