Commodity & Trade Updates

Domestic output typically covers less than 20% of national demand, leaving millers heavily exposed to global markets and external suppliers.

Farmers attribute the declinene to increase in input prices, lack of financing, and the collapse of irrigation systems.

The purchase involved hard wheat with 12.5% protein content.

This initiative is part of the government’s goal to cultivate at least 7, 400 hectares of lowland rice within five years.

Total grains output is forecast to increase 6% year on year.