It also saw Russian wheat supplies cut off by the Crimean War.
In looking for foreign wheat supplies, India is in competition with a number of nations that were once part of the former Soviet Union.
Winter wheat, which is sown in the fall, makes up about 75 percent of the wheat supply.
Cyrenaica is a part of Rome's wheat supply.
Nero had mishandled the wheat supply.
Over following weeks it increased wheat supplies.
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Following the Second World War, it was required to renew the wheat supply to the devastated countries, as well as to new and independent states.
Even more dramatic, China's wheat supplies are shrinking, hitting about 30 million tons, a two-thirds drop from five years ago.
Otherwise, if they cut off electricity and telephone lines and block the wheat supply, West Beirut will suffer.