OREANDA-NEWS. February 01, 2012. 10 thousand tones of wheat are planned to be purchased in the state reserve of Moldova in 2012., - Vasile Bumacov. This was stated by the minister of agriculture and food industry as he was speaking at the working meeting chaired by prime-minister Vladimir Filat where chairmen of the regional administration also took part.

The minister of agriculture has noted that about 30% of over 180 ha of areas sown to winter crop can suffer from frost. As it has been said before, production of grain crops and leguminous plants made 2 mln. 495 thou. t. in Moldova in 2011, which is 2,6 % up as compared with indicators of 2010. The yield of wheat grew by 6,6% from 744 thou. to 793 thou.t. The ratio of bread grain to feed grain made up 50% to 505 in 2011.

Thus, last year it has been produced 400 thou. tones of high-gluten bread-wheat, which is sufficient to ensure provision security of the state. Annual need of Moldova in the grain-wheat is 340 thou. tones.

However, in 2010, 240 thou. t. of crop only were identified as the bread one, with the rest quantities being feed grain. To ensure the provision security of Moldova, the government banned the wheat export since February, which will abrogated in the beginning of May at the insistence of IMF.