Speed breeding accelerates developing new wheat cultivars with superior traits
Increasing regional wheat production is key strategic priority, says Wulff
Wheat in focus as fierce competition, oversupply weigh on prices
World consumption and trade expected to decrease slightly in 2018
Wheat reserves at all-time high: Minister of Supply Ali Moselhy
Reserves adequate for 4.3 months, until end of April
Parliament meeting to discuss lifting prices of sugarcane, wheat, postponed to December
Agriculture Committee to meet with agriculture and irrigation ministers for the price…
Ukraine claims it would exit Egyptian wheat market due to new import rules
Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture denies any changes to wheat import rules
Egypt’s new subsidised bread system to include liberalisation of flour, diesel prices
The government aims to import 7 million tons of wheat in 2017-2018
EGP 16bn allocated to wheat purchase: minister
Large subsidies for bread and basic food commodities are also being allocated
Egypt 57th among 113 countries in 2016 global food security index: CAPMAS
Self-sufficiency ratio of wheat decreased from 56.4% to 49.1% during 2006-2015
Government begins receiving wheat from farmers mid-April
Receipt of wheat during the new season will be limited to official…
CAPMAS predicts one degree Celsius rise in temperature will lead to 18.2% decline in wheat productivity
In its most recent study on strategic crops in Egypt, the Central…