Jakarta wheat imports may rise

21 Sep, 2007

Indonesia's wheat imports from the United States may grow by 10 percent in 2007/2008 from the previous year because of tight supplies from Australia, a US industry consultant said on Tuesday. Indonesia imported 731,300 tonnes of wheat from the United States, the world's largest wheat exporter, in the 2006/2007 marketing year.
It jumped four-fold from 175,200 tonnes in the 2005/2006 period, data from US Wheat Associates shows.

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