Japan offers to buy 126,893 tons of food wheat via tender

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) is seeking to buy a total of 126,893 metric tons of food-quality wheat from the US, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that will close late on Thursday. Japan, the world’s sixth-biggest wheat importer, maintains a tight grip on imports of the country’s second-most important staple after rice, and buys a majority of the grain for milling through tenders typically issued three times a month. For almost 30 years of expertise in the agri markets, UkrAgroConsult has accumulated an extensive database, which became the basis of the platform AgriSupp. It is a multi-functional online platform with market intelligence for grains and oilseeds that ...