Egypt’s strategic wheat reserves sufficient for 5 months – minister

Egypt’s strategic reserves of wheat are sufficient for five months, the Minster of Supply Ali Moselhy said on Sunday, adding that the government has bought two million tons of local wheat since the beginning of the harvest.

However, the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated on Sunday via video conference the wheat harvest season along with a number of crops in the East Oweinat in the Western Desert on Sunday.

Moreover, the strategic reserves of rice are sufficient for 3.1 months, sugar for seven months and vegetable oils for four months, the minister Ali Moselhy further mentioned.