Items related to food scarcity

Staff 26 Jan 2011
The Egyptian government on Monday vowed to shoulder the cost of any new global food price increases this year. Trade...
The liberalization of flour trade faces incosistencies ministerial cause of its importance of as consumer commodity in the Egyptian market, 2009
Arabic Edition 22 Dec 2010
Wheat stocks at local flour mills are being rapidly depleted due to a countrywide truck drivers’ strike--now in...
Quantities of wheat which is imported from abroad upon its arrival in seaport
Staff 16 Dec 2010
Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) made a new tender offer this week for the import of 230,000...
Ashraf Khalil 14 Nov 2010
Mohamed Saieed sat grumpily behind his counter of the Mourad Butcher in Giza. 
“I have plenty of time to talk,...
Arabic Edition 07 Nov 2010
Egyptian Minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza, at a celebration held on the occasion of World Food Day, announced that...
Metwali Salem
Ashraf Fekry
28 Oct 2010
Participants at the 15th French Grains Conference, held in Cairo on Thursday, predicted more heat waves and floods in...
Arabic Edition 14 Oct 2010
The Ministry of Agriculture is in the process of drawing up technical committees to examine tomato production...
انخفاض أسعار الطماطم بالمنصورة إلى سبعة جنيهات نظرا لعدم الإقبال عليها، الدقهلية، 11 أكتوبر 2010 . كانت أسعار الخضروات ارتفعت بشكل عام والطماطم بشكل خاص حيث ارتفع سعرها بحوالى 4 جنيهات للكيلو الواحد لتصل إلى 10 جنيهات . كان د.عثمان محمد عثمان، وزير التنمية الاقتصادية قد صرح بأن سبب تراجع معدل الانتاج للطماطم وارتفاع سعرها هو الموجة الحارة التي تسود البلاد .
Staff 12 Oct 2010
Soaring meat and vegetable prices represented a "seasonal phenomenon" caused by crop damage resulting from...
Small tomatoes sold at LE10 per kilo at a market in Mansoura, Dakahliya, 9 October, 2010. The recent jump in vegetable prices, especially tomatoes, has made it one of the country’s central concerns, prompting the government to hold a meeting to determine reasons behind the sudden rise in tomato prices.
 
Staff 11 Oct 2010
Vegetable prices continued to rise this week in governorates throughout Egypt, with per-kilo tomato prices reaching...
Yousry ElHawary 03 Oct 2010
Egypt has additional stocks of wheat set aside for "times of crisis," a senior trade ministry official said...