| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 11/27/2011 - The Egyptian government is mulling adding Hungary and Bulgaria to its official list of wheat providers, according to official sources. The sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that a government panel formed ... |
| 10/27/2011 - Egypt has extended the ban on rice exports to ensure there is no shortage of supply, Trade Minister Mahmoud Eisa said on Thursday, adding that it was not clear yet when the ban in place since 2008 wou... |
| 10/24/2011 - French wheat exports to Egypt during 2010/ 2011 were estimated at a level close to 2.5 million tons. This was reported in the media quoting the French Ambassador to Egypt indicating that the French Gr... |
| 10/24/2011 - A new businessmen organization was constituted and identified as the New Federation of Importers and Producers of Meat, Fish and Poultry. This was reported in the media quoting Mr. Samir Seweilam, Cha... |
| 10/19/2011 - Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, will increase the price it pays local farmers by 8.6 percent to almost double what it pays for imported wheat, a state newspaper reported. Egypt, which impor... |
