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    Burkina Faso has registered a grain surplus of more than 340,000 mt, equivalent to 16 percent of its annual cereal needs, during the 1998/1999 agricultural season, according to an official communique issued on Thursday.

    The country's cereal production increased by 32 percent over 1997/1998 to reach a record 2.656 million mt, 12 percent higher than the average for the past five years, the government said.

    "Cereal production (millet, maize, sorghum and rice) fared well in all the provinces, particularly those that traditionally have deficits," the communique said.

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