date:Aug 09, 2013
Japan's Ministry of Agriculturebought a total of 175,277 tonnes of food wheat from the UnitedStates, Canada and Australia in a weekly tender that closed onThursday.
In Japan, the world's sixth-biggest wheat importer, theministry keeps a tight grip on imports of the second mostimportant grain after rice to protect consumers from pricevolatility and to maintain local production, which accounts forabout 10 percent of domestic wheat demand.
It buys about 5 million tonnes of foreign wheat for milli