2008Mar11: A severe drought reduces Australia’s grain crop yield to 9.8 million tons. A good harvest in Australia normally yields 25 million tons of grain (BBC, 2008).
Reference: BBC. 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7289194.stm
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