Portugal has grain reserves for two months

Source: express.pt Portuguese legislation does not include any requirement for the existence of a strategic reserve of food raw materials. Portugal has reserves of cereals for human consumption “for about a month and a half to two months”, says Eduardo Dinis, director-general of the Office of Planning, Policies and General Administration (GPP) of the Ministry of Agriculture, at a time when talks again about the shortage of raw materials caused by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, two of the world's main cereal producers. This, according to the same official, despite the fact that there is no legal obligation for the existence of a strategic reserve of food raw materials, at national level. However, explains Eduardo Dinis, cereal importers are negotiating with the owners of the silos - namely those in Trafaria and Beato (next to the Tagus, in Lisbon), in Aveiro and Leixões -, the possibility of using them for longer periods than usual, in order to increase, in a certain way, the ...