Wonderful food prices declined in November to their lowest level in more than two years, led down by much weaker vegetable oil, dairy and cereal figures, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which gauges monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar, averaged 160.8 points behind month, down from a revised 162.9 in October, reaching its lowest level since May 2016.
The October figure was beforehand given as 163.5.
FAO said global cereals output in 2018/19 was seen at 2.595 billion tonnes, down marginally from the anterior to forecast and 2.4 percent below last year’s record high production.
FAO’s forecast for world wheat work in 2018/19 was 725.1 million tonnes, 2.8 million tonnes lower than the previous forecast.