Wheat stock sufficient until March: Supply minister(AFP Photo)
Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Khaled Hanafy told Reuters that Egypt’s stocks of wheat for the subsidised bread programme will last until the end of March.
Hanafy added that the country bought 235,000 tonnes of French and Ukrainian wheat last Wednesday to be shipped to the country between 11 and 20 December.
The world’s largest wheat exporter, Russia, has pledged, following a meeting between President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in August, that Moscow will supply the country with 5m tons of wheat over the coming period.
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Source: Daily News Egypt
