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African countries will spend about US$12 billion to import some 40 million tons
of wheat, used mostly to feed the continent’s rapidly expanding populace. This
constitutes more than a fourth of Africa’s total food import expenditures (USD 40
billion…

The Chinese have farmed millet and rice in the basins of the Huang He (Yellow), Huai He (Huai), and Changjiang (Yangtze) rivers for several thousand years, and modern China is a major producer of a large range of cereals. Wheat, barley, maize, sorghum,…