21.   Shipping interests say massive lock expansions are crucial to keeping transportation costs low as grain exports -- and thus barge traffic -- rise.

22.   Tang also said government controls on grain exports have dampened export growth.

23.   Some two-thirds of U.S. feed grain exports, primarily corn, go to Asia.

24.   The government should also lift a ban on grain exports and phase out tariffs to combat unprecedented wheat shortages, Lay said.

25.   The former premier knew about illegal grain exports, which caused the shortage, the daily reported.

26.   The growth was mainly attributed to the acquisition of margarine plants in Sweden and Poland and increased grain exports.

27.   The Socialist government closed its eyes to illegal grain exports by firms of reported political loyalists, which has led to unprecedented bread shortages in a traditionally fertile land.

28.   They wrongfully permitted grain exports, which led to shortages in the following two years and forced Bulgaria to import grain.

29.   Two Socialist ministers resigned in January after their government was implicated in tolerating illegal grain exports that caused shortages and an increase in bread prices.

30.   Vietnam, concerned about depleting its domestic rice supplies, has curbed official grain exports in an effort to offset rampant smuggling to China, traders said Wednesday.