date:Jun 27, 2014
inister Khaled Hanafi told Reuters the government is examining changes to the local wheat purchasing system to give the farmers the same subsidy in a different way to avoid the distortion in the market.
Egypt bought 3.7 million tonnes of local wheat in the 2013/2014 season that ended last week, the Supplies Ministry said on Tuesday, a figure on par with the amount of domestic wheat purchased by the state last year.
Two Cairo-based traders told Reuters they expected the state had purchased at l