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The cereal import requirement for the year 2000 was estimated at 140,000 tonnes, mostly wheat and rice, the FAO report stated. Anticipated commercial imports totalled 120,000 tonnes, leaving a 20,000-tonne food aid need, it stated. Of these amounts, five tonnes of food aid pledges had already been reported to GIEWS, while eight tonnes of commercial imports had been made or contracted.
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