ROME: The overall outlook for supplies of basic food commodities to global markets has improved since poor wheat harvest and tight conditions a year ago, the United Nation’s food agency said on Thursday.

The cereal supply-and-demand balance in the 2013-2014 season was expected to be “comfortable,” the agency said, but it warned about the pace of imports of rice by China.

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