date:Jan 22, 2014
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture bought a total of 49,935 tonnes of food quality wheat from Canada in an irregular tender that closed late on Tuesday.
Japan, the world's sixth-biggest wheat importer, keeps atight grip on imports of the country's second most importantstaple after rice and typically buys five grades of food-qualitywheat from Australia, Canada and United States, via tendersusually issued three times a month that close on Thursdays.
But the ministry issued last Thursday an irregula