AGRICULTURAL TRIVIA - 5 QUESTION ANSWERS

(from AGRICULTURAL TRIVIA page)

Question 1

India

The USDA has forecast that India will have a total of 332.950 million bovine animals by the end of 2004. In 1997 there were reportedly 206 million beef cattle and 90.5 million buffalo. Since then buffalo numbers have grown more rapidly than cattle numbers but cattle numbers are still forecast at over 200 million. Brazil has the second largest herd.

Question 2

3 kg/person

The actual consumption per person forecast for 2003/04 is at 3.3 kg/person.

Question 3

d.   Egypt

b.   Iraq

c.   Japan

a.   China

Forecasts by the USDA are Egypt 7 Mt, Japan 5.8 Mt, Iraq 2.5 Mt and China 2 Mt. China’s imports will be revised upwards from this forecast and are already forecast at 8 Mt for the 2004/05 year.

Question 4

Japan

In 2003/04 Japan is forecast to import 19.69 Mt, next are South Korea at 9.7 Mt and then Mexico at 9.53 Mt

Question 5

Answers as follows:

a.   Ram

b.   Wether

c.   Ewe