date:Apr 15, 2013
back on international purchases this year in the hope of a bumper local harvest.
Sunday's auction was held for banks with clients importing staple commodities such as wheat, cooking oil, tea, meat, fish, beans, butter, corn and baby milk, components for drugs and vaccines as well as spare parts, the central bank said.
The central bank auction coincides with the start of the wheat harvest for which farmers urgently need fuel supplies to run harvesters and transport crops to storage centers.
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