AUSTRALIAN WHEAT EXPORTS RISE IN FEBRUARY

  Australian wheat shipments rose to
  1.33 mln tonnes in February from 1.01 mln in January, an
  Australian Wheat Board official said.
      February's shipments were down on the 1.54 mln tonnes
  shipped in February 1986.
      Cumulative shipments for the first five months of the
  October/September wheat year were 6.12 mln tonnes, as against
  6.54 mln a year earlier, the official said.
      The major destinations in February were: China (419,196
  tonnes), Egypt (301,909), Iraq (142,055), Japan (110,261),
  South Korea (100,847) and the Soviet Union (100,056 tonnes).
  

