Pakistan may export about two million tonnes of wheat

Pakistan, seeking to cut bulging wheat stocks, could offer up to 2 million tonnes of the grain for export this year, a senior government official said on Wednesday. An expected bumper harvest of 23 million tonnes this 2006/07 crop year allowed the country in January to lift a two-and-a-half year ban it had put in place to protect domestic supplies.
"We have enough grain so we are thinking to export 1 to 2 million tonnes of wheat this year," Mohammad Ismail Qureshi, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, told Reuters.