11. The Agriculture Ministry has plans to provide aid to farmers, and the government will import food to compensate for losses caused by the weather pattern. 12. The collapse of the ruble and the ensuing problems exchanging it for dollars have wiped out profits and made it harder to import food. 13. The operation imports food, but supplies nearly all its other needs, including water from a desalination plant. 14. The report says many low-income countries do not grow enough food to feed their residents and cannot import enough food to close the gap. 15. We were importing food from everywhere and no one cared about the cost. 16. Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Congo all said they would need to import food. 17. But as government subsidies have dwindled, the company has been forced to bear costs of maintaining the town, including importing food by air. 18. But the revenues can only be used to import food and not to fund purchase of domestic crops. 19. China, its primary ally, is being forced to import food, too, and no longer has any extra available to help the North. 20. China, its primary ally, is being forced to import food, too, and no longer has any extra available. |