ZAGREB, Aug 29 (Hina) - The payment of wheat purchased from this year's yields should be finalised by the end of the week, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry reported on Thursday.
ZAGREB, Aug 29 (Hina) - The payment of wheat purchased from this
year's yields should be finalised by the end of the week, the
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry reported on Thursday. #L#
The purchase of 407,836 tonnes of wheat was completed last week and
83.93 percent of the purchase has been paid out, the Ministry
pointed out, stressing the wheat would be paid out in the agreed
time frame, even earlier, and that to date there had not been any
complaints on behalf of farmers.
This year's purchase of market surpluses of wheat was done by three
companies, Zagreb's Agrokor, Virovitica's Zea, and the Koprivnica-
based Podravka.
According to the Ministry, this year a total of 951,591 tonnes of
wheat was produced.
Silos have taken in a total of 734,672 tonnes, of which 469,775 was
purchased from farmers, and 273,897 tonnes from legal entities.
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