Prices of top quality wheat jumped 25 per cent yesterday, the biggest one-day increase ever, to a record high as Kazakhstan, one of the world's largest exporters of the grain, said it would impose export tariffs to curb sales.

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The move, which follows similar export restrictions in Russia and Argentina, is likely to put further pressure on already tight global wheat supplies, analysts said.