wheat farmers

Iran is expected to significantly increase its wheat imports in the calendar year to late March amid a fall in domestic production that has been caused by drought and low government purchase prices.

The Iranian government has paid off its debts to domestic farmers for this year’s wheat purchases amid a bumper crop that has made the country self-sufficient in the grain.

EghtesadOnline: U.S. wheat farmers , struggling to make money as prices sink and global supplies swell, could be the main beneficiaries if Washington wins a case it brought last week against China over an estimated $100 billion in domestic grain market supports.