Adequate stocks of food grains available in Oman

Adequate stocks of food grains available in Oman

Muscat: With a new shipment of 32,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat which arrived in Oman recently, officials have assured the people that adequate quantities of food grains are available in the country.

The new shipment will add to the existing reserve of wheat in the Sultanate and the market will not be affected by the shortage of wheat around the world.

This is on the back of a series of agreements to import wheat and other items from several countries like India, Australia and recently with Ukraine that Oman Flour Mills Company has signed in the past few months.

Speaking to Times of Oman’s sisterly radio on Shabiba programme Engineer Ibrahim Said Al Amri, Chief Operations Officer of Oman Flour Mills Company (OFMC) said the storage capacity of grain silos at Port Sultan Qaboos (PSQ) is 120,000 tonnes and the company uses these silos for storage of all grains and not just wheat.

“This is in addition to other stores at the port currently allocated for storage of wheat in addition to grains such as maize, oats and others,” he added.

The senior company official said the government has offered subsidies to all those companies that would help stabilise the local market with adequate supplies