Crisis in Kremlin grain hunt signals global hunger risk
Soviet grain purchases amid bad weather and inefficient farming raise world food supply instability. Moscow resists cooperating with international relief efforts while seeking large wheat and feed grain imports, heightening dependence on harvests from a few countries and threatening hundreds of millions if a disaster year hits.
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William L. Ryan
Kremlin
U.S.S.R
Moscow
Global grain market faces crisis as Soviet demand climbs
Analysis notes how 19 million tons of U.S. grain bought by the USSR in 1972 sent prices skyward and strained long term food delivery to poor nations. Now 9.8 million tons plus four million from other sources may not meet crop shortfalls, prompting a temporary sales ban to Russia until September.
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U.S
U.S.S.R
Agriculture Department
Department
Russia
West Europe
James P. Grant
Overseas Development Council
Grant
Federal Reserve
United States
Rome
U.S. Congress
House International Relations Committee
House
Interreligious Taskforce On
Washington
Larry Minear
The
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