American officials reckon that the state grain system controls about 70% of all grain sold on the wider market.
Tajikistan also wants to tax the profits on any grain sold here, a United Nations official familiar with the negotiations said.
Perhaps more important, the bulk of American grain sold for domestic and international use goes into animal feed, and thus far few farmers or big companies have opposed feeding biotech grain to livestock.
Much of the grain sold in this southern belt of Niger - the most heavily-populated part of the country and the most at risk if this food crisis deepens - comes from Nigeria.
Maine Grains sells its products – mostly certified organic flour and rolled oats – wholesale to bakers, grocery stores, and smaller markets in five- and 50-pound bags.
Adding folic acid to breads and grains sold in the United States has cut by a third the number of fetuses at risk for birth defects caused by folic acid deficiency, a new study has concluded.
People who deserve subsidised food grains sold through ration shops do not get them.
Aid workers in Lilongwe suspect well-connected traders of hoarding the grain and selling it at a premium to hungry Malawians.
How does an enterprising young woman with no access to grain start a business selling grain?
supplies," said Lynn Clarkson, founder and president of Clarkson Grain, which sells such conventional grains.
