Amount of grain received by Iraqi silos reaches 400,000 tons

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Ministry of Trade announced that the wheat and barley crops that have been delivered to Grain processing plants exceeded (400,000 tons).The Ministry of Trade quoted the Director General of the General Company for Grain Trade, Hassan Ismaeel, as saying during his visit to the marketing locations ”The received amounts of wheat reached (327,000 tons) while the amounts of barley reached (60,644 tons).”The Council of Ministers has approved on 14/May to receive the wheat and barley crops which were damaged during last winter all over Iraq.”The tour of the Director General for the General Company for Grain Processing included Rusafa silo and the marketing center of Suwayra in Wasit province,” the statement added. \END\