date:Aug 29, 2012
, world flour trade in 2011-12 rose 14% over the previous year and set a new record by a wide margin.
This was the first crop season in which global flour exports exceeded 13 million tonnes of wheat equivalent. Prior to the past season, the record in flour export trade was 12,683,000 in 2009-10. The outgo in 2008-09, at 12,607,000, was nearly the same. Global flour trade first exceeded 11 million tonnes in 1996-97 with the aggregate at 11,186,000. The first crop year with world flour exports abo