Wheat
20% of wheat, 50% of tomato production wasted: expert
Egypt
December 22, 2015
20% of wheat, 50% of tomato production wasted: expert
Mohamed Hamdi Salem, a professor of agronomics at Ain Shams University, said Egypt loses a lot due to primitive methods…
Govt blames slight wheat cultivations shrink on floods
Business
December 17, 2015
Govt blames slight wheat cultivations shrink on floods
A slight decline in Egypt’s total wheat cultivations to 2,754 million feddans is the result of floods and heavy rainfall…
7 became multi-billionaires with wheat monopoly: supply minister
Business
November 25, 2015
7 became multi-billionaires with wheat monopoly: supply minister
Egypt’s wheat imports are monopolized by seven figures who turned into multi-billionaires thanks to that monopoly, Supply and Internal Trade…
Egypt’s GASC to provide imported wheat to private sector
Business
November 9, 2015
Egypt’s GASC to provide imported wheat to private sector
Egypt's supplies ministry said on Monday it had signed a deal with the chamber of grain industries paving the way…
Egypt to buy wheat from local farmers at average global price
Business
November 5, 2015
Egypt to buy wheat from local farmers at average global price
Egypt will start buying wheat from local farmers at the average global price starting next season, the cabinet said in…
Rice off the menu: Asia’s hunger for bread and pastries boosts wheat demand
Food
October 19, 2015
Rice off the menu: Asia’s hunger for bread and pastries boosts wheat demand
Asia is losing some of its appetite for rice in favor of wheat, a trend that is nowhere more pronounced…
Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves to last until mid-March: minister
Egypt
October 10, 2015
Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves to last until mid-March: minister
Egypt's strategic wheat reserves are enough to last until the middle of March, the country's supply minister Khaled Hanafi said…
Russia plans to increase wheat supplies to Egypt – Putin
Business
August 27, 2015
Russia plans to increase wheat supplies to Egypt – Putin
Russia plans to increase wheat supplies to Egypt, Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.According to Putin, Russia sold 4…
Egypt to import wheat from Russia, Ukraine
Business
August 15, 2015
Egypt to import wheat from Russia, Ukraine
The General Authority for Supply of Commodities (GASC) will buy 175,000 tons of wheat from Russia and Ukraine to produce subsidized bread.The…
Wheat strategic reserves cover Egypt’s needs until mid-February
Economy
July 15, 2015
Wheat strategic reserves cover Egypt’s needs until mid-February
Khaled Hanafy, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, announced that the strategic reserves of local and imported wheat are sufficient…