For the first quarter as a whole, production fell 6.5 percent, to 101.80 million tons, the institute said.

By 1996, production fell to 5.8 million tons per year.

In Kazakhstan, the harvest is expected to fall to 12 million tons from 19 million last year.

However, production experienced a sharp drop in the 1970s, falling to 4,512 tons in 1980.

Production fell to just over 4000 tons in early 1930, after which the mine was closed for 3 years.

In 2009 production of bauxite fell by 22.17 percent to 742,820 tons.

World grain stocks could fall to 288 million metric tons, a 63-day supply, the lowest since the mid-1970's.

Coal exports fell from 450,000 to 3,000 tons and London suffered a hard winter without fuel.

Four years later, official counts had fallen by more than half, to 3.5 million tons.

The nation's gold production is expected to fall to 416 tons in 1997, its lowest output since 1955, South African officials said.