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> below world cereal use of 2.811 billion tonnes How can use be higher than a record-year's production? Did they mean "demand" or they actually meant "use"?

• mbrubeck 5y ago
  It means that reserves are lower at the end of the year than at the start.
  • mastazi 5y ago
    Makes sense.
• dbuder 5y ago
  Storage.
  • mastazi 5y ago
    Right. Cereals are stockpiled in many countries.