Jordan will need to continue importing close to 100 percent of its needed wheat supply, according to USDA FAS in Amman. With the influx of Syrian refugees, wheat demand should increase as it seems to do every year.

  News Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS The local USDA forecast in Morocco indicates that the country's 2014/15 total grain imports, including durum wheat, could be up by as much as 1.2 MMT from 2013/14 as production is expected to be down significantly compared with the previous year's very good crop. Rainfall in the wheat area has been below average and much lower than last year. Although the planted area will be about the same, the expected yields are down to only 1.2 MT per hectare from 2.13 MT per hectar...