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Kenya is facing a potential wheat shortage as restrictions on imports from India due to fungal disease concerns and the conflict in Ukraine and Russia, a major source of wheat, have disrupted supplies from the Black Sea. The Cereal Millers Association has called for a risk analysis of Indian wheat and urged the government to remove duties and levies to offset the expected high flour prices. Meanwhile, the UN has warned of a possible wheat supply shortage in Africa due to the war.
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Kenya may run out of options in the importation of wheat to cover for the local deficit if it fails to lift the current restrictions on imports from India, large-scale millers have warned. Nairobi has restricted imports of wheat from India because of a fungal disease that the country is worried would affect local crops if it is allowed. Currently, local millers are hardly accessing wheat from the Black Sea following the closure of ports along this shipping corridor as a result of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Kenya gets nearly 66 percent of its supplies from the two warring nations. “We have written to the government to do a proper risk analysis on Indian wheat to see how we can manage the situation,” said the chief executive officer of the Cereal Millers Association Paloma Fernandes. Ms Fernandez said millers are supposed to be making orders now for the second half of the year but it is impossible to get the stocks from Russia and Ukraine. Ms Fernandez said India ...
Source: Businessdailyafrica
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