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economic liberalization, and the grains sector has been part
of that trend. The government is believed to have made up
to $167 million from the sale of General National Company
for Flour Mills and Fodder, at the time its second largest
public company.
The company's plants include five flour mills with a total
capacity of 1,710 tonnes a day as well as three semolina
mills with a capacity of 1,030 tonnes a day.
Its sale was part of a plan for the divestment of some 360
state enterprises launched in 2004. At the end of 2005, the
IMF said that only 66 companies had been sold off.
Negotiations for Libyan membership in the World Trade
Organization are expected to start in the second half of
2007. The WTO's General Council agreed in 2004 to set up
a working party to look at Libya's application. While the
application is in progress, Libya, which first applied to become a member in 2001, has the status of an observer at the
WTO.

Negotiations for Libyan membership in the
World Trade Organization are expected to start
in the second half of 2007.

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Despite Libya's dependence on imports, less than 2.5% of
the population suffers any sort of undernourishment, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The FAO puts average dietary energy consumption at
3,330 kilocalories per person per day, with 1,311 coming
from wheat alone. The FAO put the value of Libya's wheat
flour imports in 2005 at $369 million, on the basis of a
quantity of 958,595 tonnes. Its wheat imports that year were
worth $104 million for a quantity of 410,325 tonnes. Libya
also imported 317,206 tonnes of maize, worth $62.17 million, and 266,698 tonnes of barley, worth $43.1 million.
Even though its farm sector is small, Libya does export
some food, according to the FAO. Topping the list is 1,022
tonnes of skin dry-salted sheep ($4.7 million) and 1,087
tonnes of skin with wool sheep ($1.6 million). Cereal products are way down the list. According to the FAO, the only
cereal products on the top-20 list of Libyan food commodity exports in 2004 were wheat flour and milled paddy rice.
The total it shipped abroad was 67 tonnes of wheat flour at
a value of $14,000 and 20 tonnes of milled paddy rice worth
WG
$9,000.
Chris Lyddon is World Grain's European editor.
He may be contacted at: chris.lyddon@ntlworld.com.
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