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Algeria's wheat import needs may hit a record high, at a time of poor quality supplies from its default origin, France, raising questions over where the country will source its needs.
The North African country will import 7.5m tonnes of wheat in 2014-15, cementing its place as the world's second ranked buyer of the grain after Egypt, the US Department of Agriculture ureau in Algiers said.
The figure is 1.5m tonnes above the USDA's official forecast for Algeria's purchases, and ahead too of the record set in 2013-14, reflecting a drought-hit harvest, which the bureau pegged at a six-year low of 1.8m tonnes. The decrease in production is mainly due to the drought-affected provinces in eastern Algeria," the main production region which suffered a rain shortfall for a second successive growing season.
