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Tunisia will import
around 2.0 million tonnes of grains next year to make up for the
shortfall of its domestic crop this year, a government official said on
Monday.

“We expect to buy two million of tonnes of grains early next year from abroad,” said the official from the agriculture ministry.

Bad weather has
slashed Tunisia’s grains harvest to 1.1 million tonnes this season
versus 2.5 million tonnes last year, the ministry has said early this
month.

Harvest yields in
the North African country swings sharply due to cyclical drought, with
the average crop at 1.7 million tonnes for the past decade.

Tunisia imports
mainly soft wheat and barley, as it has a policy to allocate most of
its fertile and irrigated land to grow durum wheat.

Its purchase of soft wheat varies between 600,000 tonnes and 1.7 million tonnes of soft wheat annually.