date:Apr 22, 2014
government bought from farmers last year, Minister Ayman Abou Hadid was quoted by state news agency MENA as saying. Private traders surveyed in a Reuters poll this month expected government purchases from the local harvest at no more than 3.7 million tonnes. The amount of wheat that the government ends up buying locally often falls short of its forecasts, however.
State procurement from the local harvest began last week and runs through June. Some farmers in the country's Nile Delta region ha