Jordan Risks Wheat Shortage as Sellers Hide, Migrants Increase
- Jordan failing to attract sellers after Polish wheat rejected
- Influx of migrants may also help trigger shortfalls: Solaris
Syrian refugees, who fled the deadly conflict in their country, walk past pre-fabricated buildings at Azraq refugee camp on April 28, 2015 in Jordan, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Amman.
Photographer: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty ImagesJordan risks facing wheat shortages because the Middle Eastern nation is struggling to lure sellers just as an influx of migrants from Syria and Iraq swells the population.
Traders are reluctant to sell to the Jordanian government after the nation rejected a cargo of Polish grain earlier this year due to what many in the market consider “dubious assertions," the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s foreign service said in a report this week. The country had to re-issue a tender for the fifth time before being able to buy 100,000 metric tons of wheat this month.