Wheat cultivation areas in Egypt fall by 13% in 2019

Egypt cultivated 2.7 mn feddans of wheat at the end of the official season, dropping 13% y-o-y and falling short of the 3.5 mn feddans the Agriculture Ministry had set as a target for the year, the local press reported, citing unnamed sources from the ministry. “Unregulated” practices in agriculture and climate change have taken their toll on agriculture as a whole and affected wheat and most other crops, head of the General Syndicate of Egyptian Farmers Farid Wasil said.