Good harvest seen reducing Tunisian grain imports
Economy, North Africa — By AfricaTimes on May 11, 2009 8:36 amTunisia expects to import a total of 1.5 million tonnes of wheat and barley in 2009, an official from state grains agency Office des Cereales said on Sunday.
“We are expecting a good local harvest this year, that’s why the imports will go down,” procurement director Taoufik Saidi told Reuters on the sidelines of a grains conference in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Tunisia, one of North Africa’s main grain importers, expected to import 1.9 million tonnes of wheat in 2008, compared to 1.7 million in 2007.
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