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Thu, 04/28/2011 - 14:03
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STATE RESERVES WILL SELL WHEAT SEEDS

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to sell 5,100 tons of wheat seeds from the state reserves for spring sowing. The money to come from this will be spent for buying new seeds to refill the reserves until December 1 this year.
A ton of seeds is to be sold at 560 thousand togrog, a head of the National emergency management agency Ts.Amgalanbaatar has been told.
This spring Mongolia is to plant 48,6 thous. tons of seeds on 281,2 thousand hectares, of which 276,4 thousands lay fallow last year. Last year Mongolia reserved 36,8 thousand ton seeds, the missing some ten thous. tons will be obtained from the domestic recources, a Ministry of Food, agriculture and light industry thinks.
Mongolia gathered 344,5 thousand tons of wheat last year.
B.Oyundelger




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