date:Jul 12, 2013
make the country less dependent on imports.
Our plan was to increase the contribution of the local wheat. We hoped to reach 60 percent, Ouda said.
Mursi's government said on June 26 it had 3.613 million metric tons of total wheat but did not reveal how much of that was imported.
Earlier this week a report issued by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) attach in Egypt said domestic wheat stocks would last through October at current consumption levels. It gave no estimate for when foreign wh