Israel seeks to increase wheat production, reduce dependency on imports

The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry has launched its first-ever strategic plan, investing approximately 500 million shekels to reduce the country’s dependence on wheat imports. Currently, Israel grows only 10% of its wheat needs, while the remaining 90% is imported. This reliance on imports was severely impacted, like the rest of the world, by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a major wheat supplier. At the war’s onset, Russia blocked Ukrainian exports and even burned crops to prevent wheat from reaching the West. 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 ...