Egypt extends grant disbursement hours, strengthens supply oversight
Egypt’s Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Sherif Farouk on Thursday outlined measures to ensure smooth…
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Egypt to host AfricaRice forum from October 7-9
Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation will host the AfricaRice forum meetings, a CGIAR research…
Egypt, Pakistan eye collaboration on strategic crops, livestock development
Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Alaa Farouk held talks in Cairo with the Minister of…
Egypt’s wheat self-sufficiency rises in ’23
Egypt's wheat self-sufficiency rate stood at 44.6 per cent in 2023, with per capita availability rising to 158.8…
Myanmar’s rice exports surpass 2.37m tons in 11 months
Myanmar exported more than 2.37 million tons of rice and broken rice in the first 11 months of the 2024-25 fiscal…
Pakistan’s food exports surge in 1st 5m of FY 24-25
Pakistan's food exports in the first five months of the current fiscal year 2024-25 have risen by 19.60 per cent…
Nigeria’s inflation hits 34.6% YoY
Nigeria's inflation rate climbed for the third consecutive month in November, reaching 34.60 per cent annually, up…
Egypt’s rice production surges 44.8%, outpacing global trend – CAPMAS
Egypt produced a remarkable 6.2 million tons of rice, during the 2022/2023 agricultural year, a 44.8 per cent…
Cambodia’s exports surge 17% in 9m of ’24
Cambodia's exports have experienced a significant boost in the first nine months of 2024, reaching a total value of…
Japan’s rice exports hit record in 7m
Japan's rice exports rice exports rose 29.1 per cent to 6.46 billion yen ($44.4 million) during January-July,…
S. Korea unveils plans to buy 450K tons of rice
The South Korean government announced plans on Monday to purchase a total of 450,000 tons of rice to address an…
Malaysia seeks relief from India’s farm export curbs
Malaysia has appealed to India to ease restrictions on exports of essential farm goods like rice and sugar.
India sets to ease rice export curbs – sources
India is considering reducing the floor price for basmati rice exports and changing the 20 per cent export tax on…
Malaysia to increase diesel fuel prices by 50% on Monday
Diesel fuel prices across much of Malaysia are poised to surge by approximately 50 per cent come Monday, marking a…
Egypt’s PM inspects staple goods availability ahead of Eid al-Adha
Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly has met on Monday with Minister of Supply Ali Al-Moselhy to oversee the…
India exempts countries as Singapore, Mauritius from rice export ban
India has granted some countries like Mauritius, Bhutan, and Singapore an exemption on its recently imposed…
India expands curbs on rice exports tax by 20%
Indian government has imposed a 20 percent export duty on parboiled rice with immediate effect, a move that could…
Sisi: Egypt needs about $100bln over 7 years to fulfill import gap
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that the country needs not less than $100 billion over…
Egypt has strategic wheat reserves sufficient for 5 months – minister
Egypt has sufficient strategic reserves of commodities including wheat, to cover the country's needs for five…
Egypt’s CBE excludes rice, beans, lentils imports from cash cover
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) excluded imports of rice, beans and lentils from the 100 percent cash cover granted…
Egypt has contracted to import one million tonnes of Vietnamese rice
Egypt, traditionally a rice exporter, has contracted to purchase one million tonnes of Vietnamese rice, an official…
Egypt to import rice due to poor cultivation: Earmers syndicate chief
Chief of the farmers syndicate Hussien Abdel Rahman Abu Sedam said on Sunday that the Egyptian government will be…
Egypt to import rice after slashing its own cultivation: PM Ismail
Egypt will begin importing rice, a crop it has typically had in surplus, to increase stocks and control the market,…
ElWelely Group to open rice packaging plant before Ramadan
ElWelely Group intends to open its rice packaging plant with total investments worth 30 million Egyptian pounds in…
Egypt allows cultivation of more 100k feddans of rice
Egyptian will increase the area allocated for rice cultivation by 100,000 feddans only this season, bringing the…
Self-sufficiency rates of wheat, meat, rice decline 2.3% in Egypt
Egypt's state-run statics agency (CAPMAS) said Sunday that the county's self-sufficiency rate of wheat went down by…
No increase in rice prices at government’s outlets: Egypt ministry
Egypt's Supply Ministry has denied any increase in the price of rice at government outlets following claims by…
Egypt’s vegetable oil reserves at 3 months and sugar at 5: ministry
Egypt’s strategic vegetable oil reserves are enough to meet consumption needs for more than three months…
Egypt’s decision to ban rice exports will increase stock
Egyptian government's recent decision to ban rice exports will contribute to increasing Egypt's rice stock…
A grain deal may show that U.S.-China ties aren’t as bad as they seem
China, the world's largest consumer of rice, is now asking the U.S. for rice. For the first time ever, Asia's…
Egypt planning 200% surge in rice production, says Supply Ministry
Egypt's Minister of Supply and Internal Trading said that Egypt targets rising rice production by 200 percent…
Egypt’s El Walili Group to inaugurate food industrial complex next Sept
Rice miller and exporter of Egyptian rice, El Walili Group for Development and Investment is planning to inaugurate…
Egypt contracts to import 20,000 tonnes of Indian rice
Egypt, traditionally a rice exporter, has signed a contract to purchase 20,000 tonnes of Indian rice, a Cabinet…
Egypt’s rice reserves enough for six months
Egypt's strategic supply of rice will cover more than six months' worth of domestic consumption, state news agency…
Japan grants $154k to support small rice farmers in Egypt
Egypt and Japan have signed Saturday a grant agreement worth $154,558 to support smallholder farmers in Dakhla…
Egypt strikes deal for local rice 6 months after harvest
The Egyptian government has reached an agreement with private rice mills to produce white rice domestically,…
Rice reserves sufficient for 16 months, Egypt’s official says
Egypt's strategic rice reserves is sufficient for upcoming 16 months, Head of the Rice Division at the Federation…
Egypt limits area for rice cultivation in 2017 to preserve water
Egyptwill decrease land area used for rice production in the 2017 season with a decrease of 34.6 percent, according…
‘Mismanagement’ triggers goods crisis in Egypt: Commerce Chambers chief
Egypt has no sugar shortage; yet we are facing a "mismanagement and misdistribution issue", said Head of Federation…
Supply ministry purchases 20,000 tonnes of rice to face Egypt’s deficit
Egyptian Ministry of Supply signed contracts of purchasing 20,000 tonnes of local rice recently to be injected into…