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Ljubljana – Most basic food products became more expensive in 2020, the year marked by the Covid-19 epidemic, the Statistics Office said on Tuesday in light of the upcoming World Food Day on 16 October. They added that price rises were the most substantial in apples (+35.4%) and minced meat (+22.8%).

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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food price index also predicted that cereal production would be 2.704 billion tonnes in 2019, slightly lower than its last forecast.

World food prices rose for the first time in five months in October, boosted by jumps in quotations for sugar and cereals, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.

Staple food prices rose 7 percent in August in comparison to the previous year on the back of a rise in commodities other than grains, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Sept. 8. 

Staple food prices rose in August even as grain prices fell, and the outlook for global cereal production improved, the FAO said in a statement. 

Global food prices in May fell to their lowest since September 2009 with declines in cereals, dairy and meat products outweighing slight increases in oils and sugar, the United Nations' food agency said on June 4.

In 2013, young Ryan McHenry from Glasgow made a Vine video series called “Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal”, in which he tried to feed the Hollywood star on the screen, a spoon of cereal. The videos went viral but were quickly forgotten through the Internet’s wheel of time.

BELGRADE - Between three and four percent of arable land in Serbia was covered in water in the recent floods, but there will be enough food for the country's needs, while wheat will even be exported, head of the association of cereal farmers and exporters Zita Srbije Vukosav Sakovic told Tanjug on Friday.