The state also plans to cut supplies to urban consumers by half.

"There are ways to reduce the budget without having to affect the kids in the district, without cutting books and supplies," she said.

But politically a decision to cut supplies would be impossible to explain.

This figure was trimmed by $2.6 million by cutting overtime, equipment, supplies and postage.

It would help, he says, if the United States cut military supplies to those commanders making money out of heroin.

The government introduced several measures to cut power consumption, including restricting domestic electricity to 19 hours per day and cutting industrial supplies completely.

A dispute over price rises in 2006 and 2009 prompted Russia briefly to cut supplies.

It now seems that the disruption of long distance trade cut easy supplies of tin, making bronze impossible to make.

That will cut supplies to several thousand people, said Saikouba Ahmed, the agency's program officer here.

Monsanto, which is the only supplier of the hormone, told customers in December that it would cut supplies by 15 percent.