"pearl" wrote in message news:...
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it shows the reason *why* imports went up from *near zero*:
Correction: .... why imports went up from self-sufficiency | + | .
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Soviet grain production increases (predominantly in Russia and
Kazakhstan) of about 60 million tonnes per year from the early
1960s to the late 1970s was not sufficient to support the increase
in livestock inventories. For this reason, Soviet imports of grain
increased from near zero in 1970 to 36 million tonnes per year in
the 1980s (Shend, 1993).
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http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5069e/y5069e03.htm
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