date:Aug 13, 2013
a number of Chinese livestock farms to purchase foreign wheat.
The China National Grain and Oils Information Center forecast that China will import 6.5 million tons of wheat from the international market in the 2013-14 crop year, a nine-year high.
Adequately raising wheat imports is fairly useful to help China ease the pressure on wheat-related food prices, said Ding Lixin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing.