Egypt’s wheat farmers decry unfair gov’t offers to purchase local produce

Local farmers are complaining that the government has set unsatisfactory prices for the purchase of local wheat, The Arab Weekly said. The price the government announced ahead of the harvest season — EGP 3,900 (c. USD 230) per tonne — is not enough to entice the farmers to sell to the government given their running costs, Farmers’ Syndicate head Hussein Abu Saddam says. The average price per tonne on the international market is USD 180-200.