Thursday, June 21, 2007

Zimbabwe imports 60,000T wheat to ease shortage

(Reuters) - Zimbabwe has imported 60,000 tonnes of wheat worth $25 million to ease bread shortages after millers in the crisis-hit southern African country ran out of the grain, the official Herald newspaper reported on Thursday.

Wheat is Zimbabwe's second staple grain, after maize, but the country -- a regional breadbasket before President Robert Mugabe's drive to seize land from whites to resettle landless blacks -- has failed to meet its annual consumption requirements of between 400,000 and 450,000 tonnes.


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