According to an official of Canadian Agriculture Ministry, Canada could plant a wheat area increasing around 6% next year.
High prices, indeed, could encourage farmers to sow more, and total spring wheat output could reach around 22 million tonnes.
As for durum wheat, projections showed that durum area could rise by about 10%.
That would put the crop at 5.5 million tonnes.
But in the mean time, the Canadian province of British Columbia could introduce a state of emergency.
Massive floods cut access to the country’s largest port and stranded thousands.
Mudslides triggered by heavy rains destroyed several major roads and killed at least one person.
Officials say the death toll could rise, because other people are missing.
“What we’re seeing is a natural disaster,” provincial Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth told.
Several towns have been completely cut off and at least one reported that food was starting to run low.
The town of Abbotsford to the east of Vancouver issued an emergency warning on Tuesday night, ordering all residents from one region to evacuate immediately.
The area has a major dairy industry and on Tuesday farmers worked desperately to save their animals from rising waters, in some cases tying ropes around their necks and pulling them with personal watercraft to higher ground.
Canadian Pacific Rail and Canadian National Railway , the country’s two biggest rail companies, said the flooding has forced them to cut service to Vancouver, the country’s biggest port.
This disruption comes as global supply chains are already struggling to deal with problems caused by COVID-19.
