| Egypt >> 1/29/2014 - The General Authority for Supply Commodities has signed a contract to buy 240,000 tons of wheat from Russia and the United States. The amounts would be imported as of March 10 at an average... |
| Egypt >> 11/2/2013 - The Ministry of Agriculture launched a development initiative dubbed "securing wheat for Egypt" in partnership with Kraft Foods Group, Mondelez International and CARE Egypt. The initiative ... |
| Egypt >> 8/31/2013 - Minister of Agriculture Ayman Abu Hadid said that 1.3 million feddans will be cultivated with rice next year to achieve self-sufficiency of rice. This came during the minister's meeting wit... |
| Egypt >> 3/25/2013 - The government allocated on 24/3/2013 LE11 billion to buy wheat from local farmers this year as reported at a cabinet meeting on 24/3/2013. The meeting, presided by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, discu... |
| Egypt >> 7/9/2012 - Egypt's state wheat buyer said it had surpassed its local procurement target by 700,000 tonnes and had a strategic supply of local and imported wheat to last until January. "Our target was 3 million t... |
| Egypt >> 6/25/2012 - Cairo - Egypt’s strategic wheat stockpiles total 5 million metric tons, enough to cover the country’s needs for six months, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported, citing Supply Minister Gouda... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 6/1/2012 - Cooperation between the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Arab countries on achieving food security was discussed at meeting by ambassador of the UAE to Italy and permanent re... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 5/22/2012 - The Ministry of Environment and Water has lifted the ban on the import of British beef and British beef products into the UAE with immediate effect. This is positive news for consumers in the UAE who ... |
| Egypt >> 5/8/2012 - Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, will hike its food purchasing bill for the fiscal year that starts in July from a year earlier to cope with rising global prices as its economy reels from mo... |
| Egypt >> 5/3/2012 - World food prices eased in April after three months of gains, driven down by falls in grains and sugar, and can remain under a downward pressure in the coming months, the United Nations' Food and Agri... |
| Egypt >> 4/22/2012 - Head of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI) Osama Saleh said that Singapore will establish foodstuff projects in Egypt with initial investments amounting to $10 million. This ca... |
| Egypt >> 4/5/2012 - Global food prices rose in March for a third successive month, driven by gains in grains and vegetable oils, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation said, putting food inflation firmly b... |
| Egypt >> 3/21/2012 - A unit of Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital plans to cultivate up to 40,000 acres of farmland in South Sudan to sell staple foods such as maize in the newly-independent nation, an executive... |
| Egypt >> 2/26/2012 - An L.E. 300 million project to produce daily 1,000 tons of bottled juices and milk is expected to start production by mid March 2012. The project is a joint venture between Faragallah Group and Tetra ... |
| Morocco >> 2/24/2012 - The Moroccan government extended the suspension of import duties on soft wheat until the end of April and on durum wheat until the end of May, a spokesman for the country's customs authority said. |
| Algeria >> 2/10/2012 - Algeria bought a surprisingly high volume of milling wheat, accelerating its purchases at a time international tensions have led to a surge in demand from countries such as Iran, European traders said... |
| Kuwait >> 1/19/2012 - Up to 50% of edible and healthy food gets wasted in EU households, supermarkets, restaurants and along the food supply chain each year, while 79 million EU citizens live beneath the poverty line and 1... |
| Egypt >> 1/8/2012 - Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, has bought 240,000 tonnes of Ukrainian, French and Russian or Kazakh wheat for March 11-20 shipment on a free-on-board basis, the main government wheat buyer... |
| Egypt >> 1/8/2012 - Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Mohamed Reda Ismail stressed on 7/1/2012 that his Ministry, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade, will apply severe punishments t... |
| Egypt >> 12/13/2011 - Rice smuggling to neighboring Arab countries is continuing at a rate of not less than 300 tons daily. This was reported in the media quoting Mr. Ragab Shehata, Head of the Rice Branch at Alexandria Gr... |
