date:May 26, 2014
gheer, from a small village in Sharqiya province in the heart of the Egypt's breadbasket north of Cairo, complains of water shortages and expensive fertilizer and says he does not expect the yield on his roughly one acre of land to increase dramatically soon.
We don't have a good supply of water, fertilizer is too expensive, and sometimes insects attack our crops, he said.
Traders surveyed in a Reuters poll ahead of the harvest put the year's crop at around 7 million tonnes, in line with last