Iraq Bought 35% More Rice From Local Producers in 2011-12 Season
| January 26, 2012 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Iraq Bought 35% More Rice From Local Producers in 2011-12 Season
Iraq’s trade ministry bought 35 percent more rice from local producers in the last season, compared with the previous one, according to Hassan Ibrahim, director general of Iraq’s Grain Board.
The ministry purchased 112,000 metric tons of rice from local producers in the 2011-12 season, up from 83,000 tons the previous year, he said in a telephone interview in Baghdad. The trade ministry set its purchasing price at 750,000 dinars ($643.78) a ton, he said.
Iraq consumes about 1.25 million tons of rice a year, mostly imported, Ibrahim said in a Dec. 6 interview.
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