Following months of protests across the world over food price hikes, the European Union has signalled it is expecting a boost in crop production which could go towards freezing soaring food prices.
According to a forecast by the Joint Research Centre, a scientific service for the European Commission, published on Thursday (7 August), the 27-nation bloc could see an increase of 16 percent in the total cereals harvest compared to last year, with some 301 million tonnes expected in 2008.
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