Wheat farmers struggle for improved seeds as planting begins.

Collectively, the three African countries have bought more than one million tonnes of wheat for much of the past 10 years. Sudan has averaged about 650,000 tonnes for the 10 years up to 2014-15, but has not bought a grain of wheat from Australia for each of the past two seasons. Tanzania has been a regular buyer for most of the past two decades with imports of Australian wheat ranging from 60,000 tonnes to 360,000 tonnes, but it only took 102 tonnes in 2015-16 and 1257 tonnes last season in containers. Egyptian imports of Australian wheat peaked at 2.76 million tonnes in 2003-04 and shipments ranged from 245,000 tonnes to 1.47 million tonnes since then.