E-Malt.com News article: 1557

Malting barley harvest in European Union will reach the value of 9 million tonnes this year, under the Mautner’s estimations. United Kingdom is to be the EU largest malting barley producer with a harvest of 2.04 million tonnes, about 65.9% up versus the malting barley harvest in 2002. Here are the estimations for the malting barley production in the main EU member states:

in million tonnes	2002	2003	%
UK	1.23	2.04	65.9%
Germany	1.44	1.90	32.1%
France	1.73	1.90	9.9%
Denmark	1.55	1.45	-6.3%

12 September, 2003