7121.0 - Agricultural Commodities, Australia, 2010-11 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 29/06/2012   
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  • Production increased nationally for barley (up by 2%), grain sorghum (28%), rice (268%), cotton (140%) and canola (24%) since 2009-10.
  • Area planted to sorghum (633,000 ha), rice (76,000 ha), cotton (588,000 ha), lupins (756,000 ha) and canola (2.1 million tonnes) increased in 2010-11.
  • Australia's largest crop wheat, increased its production by more than a quarter, up to 27.4 million tonnes in 2010-11. Conversely the area planted to wheat decreased slightly, by 3% to 13.5 million hectares.
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Source(s): Agricultural Commodities, Australia (cat. no. 7121.0)