date:May 13, 2014
age losses (typically 20-30 per cent is lost annually due to poor storage) and to use as a food security safety net.
The MoSIT recently introduced a pilot smart card system for subsidized bread in the Suez Canal city of Port Said which is intended to restructure and allow choices within the bread subsidy system without reducing the amount of money allocated for bread subsidies nationwide ($3.15 billion) annually.
If this foray proves successful, MoSIT plans to implement this program nationwide