The Canadian Wheat Board and China have an agreement whereby China will buy 500,000 tonnes of mostly high quality spring wheat by the end of 2011.Federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz announced the deal Monday, arrived at during his third trade mission to China in less than a year.The deal is believed to be worth about $130 million.The sale is tied to poor growing weather in China that has hurt the quality of its crop, although Ritz said it did not indicate a major production shortfall.The Asian giant is a sporadic buyer of Canadian wheat. In the current crop year to the end of April, it has bought only 200,000 tonnes of wheat, durum and wheat flour.The last big purchase of Canadian wheat was in 2004-05 when it imported 2.26 million tonnes.
China buys Canadian spring wheat
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