BAGHDAD- Iraq's Etihad Food Industries signed a contract with the country's trade ministry to provide 200,000 tonnes of sugar and 90,000 tonnes of vegetable oil, the ministry said on Sunday.
The ministry said the contract would help the central government achieve its goal of using local companies to provide such materials.
In the last several days, the ministry said it had purchased 60,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice and 100,000 tonnes of Australian wheat from Iraqi-Vietnamese Co.
The ministry continues to announce tenders for the purchase of wheat from Australia, the United States and Canada.
The ministry buys hundreds of thousands of tonnes a year of sugar, lentils, grains and other food and basic household goods to supply a national ration programme.
(Reporting by Moayad Kenany; writing by Raya Jalabi; editing by Dale Hudson) ((Raya.Jalabi@thomsonreuters.com;))
