OAO United Grain Co., Russia’s state-owned trader, delivered 9,000 metric tons of flax seeds to Belgium on March 15, the last in a series of three shipments, the company said today by e-mail.

Most of the flax cultiveted in Great Britain is grown in Northern Ireland, which provides fibre for the linon made in Ulster. In normal times the home grown fibre is inadequate, and most British ...

Subsidies will continue to be paid to European Union (EU) producers of flax and hemp fibre crops, the EU Council of Ministers has decided.