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Finance and Economy Minister Nizar Baraka told a parliamentary committee that 125,000 tonnes of locally-produced soft wheat from last year's harvest remains to be collected by end-May, a statement posted on the ministry's website said. The North African country is bracing for a drop in this year's cereals harvest, as well as other crops, after a shortage in rainfalls and a prolonged cold spell hurt farming, the head of the agriculture industry said earlier on Friday.