The 1964 Western Europe agricultural situation : supplement no. 3 to the 1964 world agricultural situation /

Agricultural production in West Asia rose 5 percent above the previous year's level in 1963, was 11 percent above the 1958-62 average and 37 percent above the 1952-54 average. For the area as a whole, however, per capita farm production has not made rapid gains and is only 5 percent over the 1952-54 base period (table 1).

Some parts of most countries of West Asia had unseasonable weather, floods, and drought during the planting or growing season for the 1963 harvests. Jordan suffered the most severe drought of the century. Rust and weather damage to the wheat crop sharply reduced otherwise favourable farm production in Syria. Drought, then floods, lowered agricultural output in Iraq.

In contrast, Turkey--the source of roughly half of West Asia's farm production--en joyed generally better weather for agriculture than had prevailed for some time. Iran contributes a fifth of regional agricultural output; good crops in north-eastern and central sections of the country appear to have overbalanced losses in the south-western provinces.
In three smaller countries of the region--Israel, Lebanon, and Cyprus--total agricultural output was better than the average of recent years.

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