Israeli companies offer solutions for global wheat crisis
Israeli agritech companies are finding solutions for the growing global wheat crisis and others.
Israel’s Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman traveled to Azerbaijan a month ago for meetings on expanding commerce between the countries and securing the importation of oil and other products to Israel, in light of supply problems from Ukraine and Russia because of the war.
The talks' topics included the importation of wheat from Azerbaijan, which does not currently grow wheat in large quantities for export. According to sources at the Finance Ministry and the Agriculture Ministry, deals were struck for Israeli agricultural technology to help increase wheat production in Azerbaijan. The goal is to start buying wheat from Azerbaijan in 2025.
Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Oded Forer will soon visit Baku with a group of Israeli agriculture experts.
Ukraine is one of the largest suppliers of wheat in the world, but the war and the Russian occupation of much of its territory near the Black Sea and its ports has halted exportation. Russia itself has slowed exports of its own wheat along with India, which fears a shortage because of prolonged droughts.
