Two years ago grain imports totaled 66 million bushels.

Drought last year forced grain imports into a country that is primarily agricultural.

Large grain imports pushed the Soviet debt quite high in 1981.

If they are forced off their land by subsidized grain imports, they starve.

Purchases of coarse grains would bring Beijing's total grain imports to 16.6 million tons this year.

Soviet officials, in fact, have warned that grain imports might be much higher.

Most exports were stopped, as well as grain imports from Denmark.

After 1965, Mexico, finding itself increasingly troubled by foodstuff inflation, again turned to grain imports.

Record harvests in 1984 and 1985 made it possible virtually to halt grain imports, which had amounted to about 500,000 tons per year.

It will also save the Government foreign exchange, by reducing grain imports.