India offers to sell Egypt rice at EGP 6,600 per tonne

India has offered to sell Egypt rice at EGP 6,600 per tonne, the head of the Federation of Egyptian Industries’ rice division, Ragab Shehata, told Al Shorouk. Shehata did not clarify how much rice Egypt is looking to buy from India. A report from the US Agriculture Department’s foreign service expected Egypt to import 300k tonnes of rice in FY2018-19 as production drops due to restrictions on the cultivation of water-intensive crops such as rice.