Effect of MOE on the grain market of Azerbaijan increased

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of this year were purchased for the needs of the State Grain Fund 548,000 tons of wheat and 8,000 tons of wheat flour. This was at a meeting dedicated the seventh anniversary of the Emergencies Ministry said the head of the agency Kamaladdin Heydarov.

The minister said that part of the reserves was implemented to maintain stable prices for bread during the increase in world wheat prices in August and September of this year.

Initially fund the grain, which was established in 2008, had a quota of 200,000 tons of storage stocks of food grains, but since this summer quota increased to 500,000 tons. This will further strengthen the role of the Emergency Situations Ministry, as the state of the customer in the market.

According to the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, in the first nine months of this year the country had delivered 755,600 tons of wheat (excluding 28,300 tons of wheat seed) with a total declared value of $ 166.3 million according to the report of the State Customs Committee, within 10 months of this year, imports of wheat ($ 216 million.) decreased compared to the same period in 2011 by 1.4%, and flour ($ 1.3 million) - 97.8%. - 08D-