Sentences with phrase «of wheat it imports»

Sudan, for example, produces roughly 1 ton of wheat at home for every 4 tons of wheat it imports from abroad.

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Cutting the imports of American wheat, soybeans, and other agricultural products will not cause starvation in China because there are alternative producers (Canada, Brazil, and Argentina).

A flood of imported wheat can shift consumption away from sorghum or cassava, making them scarcer in loyal markets.

Because so much land is used for beef production, Egypt has to import more than 50 per cent of its wheat.

The whole wheat variety of this Japanese import is available in natural food stores and has a smoother texture and milder flavor than domestic whole wheat pastas.

To provide even greater scrutiny of commodities imported from countries considered to be high risk for fraud, this notification requires all certifiers in the U.S. to immediately implement additional control measures for their certified operations that directly import organic corn, soy, edible dry beans, wheat, flax or sunflower from the following countries:

«Right now, we are importing a lot of rice and wheat.

South Korea and Japan temporarily suspended imports of US wheat and South Korea began testing existing wheat imports from the US for signs of modified material, with no positive results so far.

Breadfruit fell out of favour long ago, eclipsed by cheap imports based on wheat, rice and maize.

Overall, North Africa imports about half of the global wheat trade, according to Abdelkader Benbelkcem, a researcher with the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Tunisia.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday raised its forecast for China's imports in 2013/14 to 8.5 million metric tons from 3.2 million metric tons in the previous year, prompting U.S. wheat prices to rally to more than two - week highs.

Although the global wheat market was underpinned by Chinese buying last week, U.S. wheat prices are still around 9 percent below domestic prices of similar quality cited in Jiangsu province, encouraging imports.

Higher imports of top - grade wheat by China would drive up premiums for protein - rich spring wheat traded on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange and hard red winter wheat on the Kansas City Board of Trade.

The region depends on bread and imports half of its wheat.

The company believes wheat gluten imported from China is the cause of the trouble, which began about the same time that it switched to a new supplier of the protein (used to thicken the gravy).

When a country or region imports a ton of wheat instead of producing it domestically, it saves most of that.»

The discovery last week triggered an international reaction, with both South Korea and Japan temporarily suspending imports of US wheat.

Alex Wall, director of the National Association of British and Irish Millers told New Scientist that the type of white wheat in question is seldom — if ever — imported into Europe.

In «Global wheat: The risks behind the records,» a report published by AHDB in February 2018, Kaur Purewal and colleagues suggest that, despite an unprecedented run of surplus global wheat production in the last four years, there is a relatively small cushion for large - scale importers to fall back upon, if imports become harder to obtain.

In good years Afghan farmers harvest upwards of 5 million tons of wheat, the country's number - one food crop, but in some years annual wheat imports exceed 1 million tons to satisfy domestic demand, which exceeds 5.8 million tons.

Towns and cities are highly dependent on wheat and rice imports, but cereals represent less than a third of what urban households consume.

I have family members who can consume certain varieties of grains (like imported organic Einkorn wheat or the ancient grain spelt) without a problem but react horribly to regular wheat or grain products.

The prime suspect of contamination is wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate imported from China.

South Korea, which imports 70 percent of its grain, has acquired 1.7 million acres in Sudan to grow wheat — an area twice the size of Rhode Island.

In recent years, grain imports into Iran, a water - short, grain - deficit country, have eclipsed those of Japan, long the world's leading wheat importer.

Then from 2010 to 2011, the price of wheat doubled — fueled by a combination of extreme weather events linked to climate change, oil price spikes and intensified speculation on food commodities — impacting on Syrian wheat imports.

As well, they report that growing and transport of wheat had significant impacts, with imported wheat causing almost double the impact for energy consumption as opposed to using local Swedish grown grain.

Although Italy remains one of the world's main producers of durum wheat (its expertise in selecting and blending grains for pasta making is still unrivaled), strong domestic demand and a flourishing export market have forced pasta manufacturers to import more from abroad (close to 40 %), primarily from Canada and Syria.

Mongolia now imports nearly 60 percent of its wheat.

Droughts have become longer and more frequent, forcing China to import ever - increasing amounts of staples like wheat and soy.

Over the past three years, the nation's imports of corn, rice, and wheat have skyrocketed.