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Egypt targets wheat harvest of 10 mn tons in 3 years

Egypt’s Agriculture Minister Essam Fayed said on Saturday that Egypt is looking to increase the domestic production of wheat to 10 million tons from 8 million tons over the next three years.
 
In a statement, Fayed said Egypt will increase the cultivated area and boost the productivity of the acre, along with rationalizing the consumption as part of its strategy to achieve self-sufficiency in wheat.
 
Egypt produced around 8 million tons of the crop last year, and this year’s harvest is estimated to remain at the same level as the previous year and the five-year average.
 
Egypt is the world's largest wheat buyer.
 
Wheat imports for the 2016/17 marketing year (July/June) are estimated at 12 million tons, about the same as the previous year and about 1.3 million above the average for the last five years.
 

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