date:Sep 17, 2012
Argentina will export an additional 2.75 million tonnes of maize from its 2011-12 crop, the country's agriculture minister Norberto Yauhar confirmed.
This will increase the amount of maize to be exported by Argentina from that harvest to 16.45 million tonnes, Yauhar told Jos Graziano da Silva, director-general, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), when they met at the FAO headquarters.
The additional shipments, together with recent better-than-expected figures from the US Department of Agr