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Context 2: THE EUROPEAN UNION CEREAL MARKET

Extract D: EU wheat production, 2012 and 2018

20122018
Wheat Output (million tonnes)132143
Harvested wheat area (million hectares)2624

Source: Eurostat

UK wheat production, 2000–2018 (thousands of tonnes)
YearProduction (thousand tonnes)
200016,700
200111,600
200216,000
200314,300
200415,500
200514,900
200614,700
200713,200
200817,200
200914,100
201014,900
201115,300
201213,300
201311,900
201416,600
201516,400
201614,400
201714,805
201813,600

Source: DEFRA

Using the tables in Extract D, calculate to two decimal places the increase in annual productivity (tonnes of output per hectare) when 2018 is compared with 2012, and identify one significant feature of the data shown in the table for UK wheat production.

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1.4 Production, costs and revenue Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Economics
  3. /1.4 Production, costs and revenue

156 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 1.4 Production, costs and revenue, covering 1.4.1 Production and productivity, 1.4.2 Specialisation, division of labour and exchange, 1.4.3 The law of diminishing returns and returns to scale (A-level only), 1.4.4 Costs of production, 1.4.5 Economies and diseconomies of scale, 1.4.6 Marginal, average and total revenue, 1.4.7 Profit, and 1.4.8 Technological change (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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