| 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 >> 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 >> 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 >> 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 >> 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 >> 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 >> 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 >> 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 >> 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... |
