In the agricultural heartland of Egypt, along the fertile banks of the Nile, one of the year’s most significant harvests is ...

Gad, who survived, said the men were trying to silence him for his attempts to expose corruption in one of Egypt’s most important commodity markets: wheat. Wheat can be a matter of life and ...

ABU DHABI/CAIRO, June 8 (Reuters) - Egypt's reported record local wheat purchases of 5 million tonnes so far this season suggest chronic smuggling has been worsened by an inflated government ...

Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, faces a higher bill for bread subsidies in the next year but has adequate financial resources and stocks to avoid any rerun of the violent protests of 2008.

CAIRO - Egypt will start buying local wheat from farmers at the average global price starting next season changing the way it subsidizes its wheat growers, the cabinet said in a statement on Thursday.

A farmer sieves wheat grains while harvesting wheat crop in Qaha, El-Kalubia governorate, northeast of Cairo, Egypt May 5, 2016. Picture taken May 5, 2016. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh By Eric ...

Egypt stands to access more than $600 million from the World Bank and the European Union to improve its wheat silo system and support government wheat purchases as it struggles with the fallout ...

Egypt’s overhaul of the way it buys wheat is making it much harder to follow a key chunk of global grain trade. As one of the biggest wheat importers, Egypt’s state-issued tenders and direct ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In late May in Nubaria, an agricultural area reclaimed from the desert in northern Egypt, farmers and ...

A report published by the Egyptian government on Tuesday revealed that the state has established 35 new silos for storing wheat since 2014, bringing the total number of silos to 75 in 2023. Before the ...

Egypt’s state grains buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), announced on Tuesday a massive tender for 3.8 million metric tonnes of wheat to cover imports between October ...

Egypt will switch to sourcing almost half a million tons of wheat from France and Bulgaria, after Moscow blocked the supply of Russian grain, according to people familiar with the matter. Moscow ...