IMPORTANCE AND TENDENCIES OF THE WHEAT SECTOR

In the present paper, we try to give a general picture about World importance and present tendencies of the wheat sector. Firstly, the global wheat production is introduced. The area of wheat production did not change in the last twenty years, thus we can claim that wheat was produced stably on about 200-225 million hectares yearly from 1990 to 2013. However, the quantity of wheat increased a bit on the global level due to the fact that the global yield of wheat improved in the last twenty years by 0.5 tonne per hectare. Afterwards, we talk about TOP15 wheat exporter countries. There was no significant change among these target countries in the last ten years.