| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
