date:Aug 14, 2013
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We'll import wheat from Ukraine under a state-to-state deal. And the wheat is be shipped within 90 days, Ahmed Hossain Khan of the Directorate General of Food told Reuters on Tuesday, adding the purchase is at $307 a tonne, including CIF liner out.
In 2011, Bangladesh imported 160,000 tonnes of wheat in two phases from Ukraine in its first government deal with Kiev.
The state agency plans to import 850,000 tonnes of wheat in the financial year that started in July, up from around 350,000