Indonesia to buy 'quality-assured' Australian wheat
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Indonesia will soon receive Australia's first ever shipment of a new type of quality-assured traceable grain from Western Australia's southern port town of Esperance.
The wheat is known as "grain pool integrated quality" and customers can track information about the crop including the kind of stock that previously grazed in the paddock.
Grain handler Cooperative Bulk Handling says detailed traceability is extremely important in Asia.
CBH Group Chairman Neil Wandel says the product will give Australian growers a major point of difference in the international market.
"the world is looking for safer and cleaner food and we believe our quality assured program is going to deliver a competitive edge for our growers," he said.
Mr Wandel says farmers in Grass Patch in West Australia have lead the project and resurrected the State's quality assured program.
