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Min. of Agriculture: Egypt Plans to Produce 10 Million Tons of Wheat This Year


Thu 21 Apr 2022 | 10:31 AM
Ahmed Moamar

Dr. Al Syyed Al-Qaseer, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation said on Thursday that the Egyptian state has taken several mechanisms to support the wheat crop for this year.

He indicated the most important of which is to increase the cultivated area by about 250 thousand acres and announce the price before the season with an exceptional incentive report and the national project for silos by increasing storage capacities

In his speech during President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's tour of the Toshka project, Thursday.

Al-Qaseer added that the future vision for wheat cultivation in light of the repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis shows that the area cultivated with wheat in the 2021/22 season is 3.65 million feddans, achieving total production for Egypt. With a total of 10 million tons.