date:Jun 24, 2014
t of Jeddah and 360,000 tonnes for the port of Dammam, GSFMO Director General Waleed Elkhereiji said in a statement. Saudi Arabia has become a major importer of hard and soft wheat since abandoning plans for self-sufficiency in wheat in 2008 as farming in the desert strained water supplies.
The country aims to steadily reduce agriculture and plans to be completely reliant on imports by 2016 to save water. Saudi Arabia has so far purchased a limited amount of wheat from its local farmers amount