date:Jan 07, 2014
rts given the record-low local harvest.
It sounds conceivable to me, one European trader said.
Syrian agriculture has been hugely disrupted by the fighting and this will have greatly increased their import requirements. Importing has also been concentrated in state hands as private buyers have been kept out of the market by sanctions, he said.
Estimates collated by Reuters from more than a dozen grain officials and local traders in July suggested the local harvest could have been as low as 1.