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Agriculture & Food
Farming, fisheries, the food supply and the trade that moves it.
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Why agricultural export values move when the harvest does not
An export figure is a price multiplied by a quantity, reported as a single number. Reading it as a measure of how much food left the country confuses the two, and this explains what it takes to tell them apart.