By Niu Shuping and Naveen Thukral WU LIU, China / SINGAPORE (Reuters)- China's wheat crop has
suffered more severely than previously thought from frost in the growing period and rain
during the
harvest, and import demand to compensate for the damage could see the country eclipse Egypt as the world's top buyer.
At the same time, North Korea, largely deforested and
suffering from flood - induced soil erosion and land degradation, has watched its yearly grain
harvest fall from a peak of almost 6 million tons
during the 1980s to scarcely 3 million tons per year today.