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Egypt will pay 400 Egyptian pounds ($65.40) per ardab measuring unit, or about 2,640 pounds per ton, for wheat for the 2013 season starting May, the government said.
 
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LUDHIANA: "India produced a record 93 million tonnes of wheat during 2012 harvest, thus, creating a mountain of surplus grain. But the share of Punjab in country’s wheat production has declined from 22.3 per cent in 2001 to nearly 17 per cent in 2012. It will decline further to 13 per cent by 2030."
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US farm staff in Beijing stick with an estimate for China's wheat crop well below the official figure - citing support from prices for their belief...
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Days after the union cabinet held back the decision on hiking minimum support of wheat for the 2013-14 crop marketing season, leaders of two of India’s biggest wheat producing states, Punjab and Haryana demanded that government should raise the ...
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Dave Wright, managing director of Wright's Flour Mill, discusses how adverse weather has affected the harvest of wheat in the U.K. He also explains how it is affecting his business.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has decided not to raise the price it will pay to buy wheat from local farmers for the first time in decades, a government source said on Thursday, as it grapples with bulging...
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The deepest slump in Australian
wheat shipments in six years will exacerbate the biggest
contraction in global exports in a generation after droughts
withered crops around the world.
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From dawn.com - October 31, 1:23 PM
PAKISTAN is an agricultural state, thus agriculture is the mainstay of the country’s economy. Its significance is manifold as it provides food to the people, raw materials to industry and is a base for earning foreign exchange through foreign trade.
RescoopAlmost 90% of the 130 million hectares in which wheat is grown across the globe faces the threat of deadly UG 99 stem rust which can destroy acres of fields in just a few days.
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Wheat imports by China rose to a seven-year high in the year to September, but higher global prices due to bad weather in the United States and Australia are likely to cut purchases for the rest of the year. China is the world's biggest wheat producer, but a poor harvest, and higher domestic prices due to stockpiling in the beginning of the year, boosted wheat imports in the first nine-months of 2012 to 3.21 million tonnes, the highest since 2005, according to official data.
