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Zimbabwe
starts to import wheat to avert looming bread shortages
Relief
Web
March 15, 2006
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-6MW8XT?OpenDocument&rc=1&cc=zwe
HARARE, Zimbabwean
Minister of State for National Security Didymus Mutasa has said
that the government is to import 50,000 tons of wheat to complement
15,000 tons already in stock to avert looming bread shortages.
Minister of
State Mutasa was quoted by Wednesday's Daily Mirror as saying that
the government was importing 50,000 tons of wheat through Mozambique's
port of Beira.
The minister
explained that the 15,000 tons were reserved for bakers by some
millers, but the confectionery manufacturers were yet to pay for
the wheat.
Zimbabwe consumes
about 400,000 tons of wheat yearly, but in 2005, the country managed
to produce 95,000 tons. The government through Grain Marketing Board
(GMB) imported the balance.
The Millers
Association of Zimbabwe recently said that the GMB was now giving
bakers 400 tons of wheat a week, down from 600 tons.
It said the
shortage of the grain could force bakers to import flour from South
Africa, which could lead to more bread price increases.
Zimbabwe is
expected to produce between 450,000 and 500,000 tons of wheat annually.
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