Zimbabwe left with three months’ supply of wheat; millers to import 200,000 tonnes from Canada.

A 10-member delegation from the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe is headed for Canada to source 200,000 tonnes of wheat amid revelations the country is left with just three months’ supply of the grain. GMAZ chairman, Tafadzwa Musarara, who is heading the delegation, said the wheat stocks were fast depleting owing to a high demand in cereals, adding the consignment from Canada would last until the next winter wheat harvesting season. The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe is now making deliberate attempts to directly source from Western countries in addition to the Asian sources where they are buying from and in the 2018-2019 procurement plan they are intending to bring 300,000 tonnes of both soft and hard wheat from Poland, Russia, Canada and America as well as 250,000 tonnes of rice.