date:Jan 07, 2014
War-torn Syria's state wheat import deals surged to 2.4 million tonnes in 2013 from 550,000 a year earlier, the country's General Establishment for Cereal Processing and Trade (Hoboob) said on Monday.
Syria suffered its worst wheat harvest in nearly three decades in 2013 as war and sanctions continued to put pressure on the government to import food.
The imported wheat was mostly of Black Sea origin and deals were done outside the tender process and paid through unlocked funds in frozen Syrian