Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Tunisian officials say the country has sufficient stocks of soft wheat, durum, and barley to cover all requirements until May 2022. Pakistan wheat flour prices have increased by about 15 percent due to the recent ban on the interprovincial movement of wheat. Wheat millers have asked the government to increase the allocation of wheat from government stocks to overcome the shortage of locally traded wheat from other provinces. Pakistan has reportedly developed a hybrid wheat seed that can increase crop yields by 40 percent with longer term development expected to lead to a 100 percent yield increase. The seed has been developed based on local and Chinese hybrids and has been in...
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