Reuters
PARIS, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Morocco’s state buyer ONICL is tendering to buy 24,500 tonnes of feed barley to supply subsidised grain to specified provinces in the country, European traders said on Wednesday.
Most of the grain, likely coming from the European Union, was believed to be already in the country.
The bidding deadline was on Sept. 18, they said.
Unfavourable weather slashed Morocco’s cereals harvest from 8.4 million tonnes in 2011 to 5.1 million tonnes this year, of which 2.74 million was in soft wheat, 1.13 million in durum wheat and 1.2 million in barley, official data showed.
(Reporting by Valerie Parent, writing by Sybille de La Hamaide; editing by Keiron Henderson)
