March 20 2003, 13:56 Interfax-Ukraine

Ukraine will make flour intervention next week

Ukraine's Committee for Management of State Material Reserve (Derzhkomreserv) is planning to make next week the first intervention in the market of flour in the amount of 30,000 tonnes, Deputy Head of the Committee Volodymyr Omelyanchuk has informed.

He also said the Committee, on the permission of government, intended to process 150,000 tonnes of grain at its milling plants and to allocate it to the regions, suffering from flour shortage, Interfax-Ukraina news agency reported.