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More sanity? <\/strong>The Agriculture Ministry has officially brought its ergot policy into line with other government agencies, Maha El Dahan writes for Reuters<\/a>. The decree states that any wheat shipments with an ergot content below 0.05% would be treated and accepted, while those with levels over 0.05% will be rejected. \u201cThis fixes a discrepancy in regulations governing the work of the agricultural quarantine agency, which falls under the agriculture ministry,\u201d el Dahan writes. \u201cThis means officially by the law, there should be no more ergot issues,\u201d a Cairo-based trader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More sanity? The Agriculture Ministry has officially brought its ergot policy into line with other government agencies, Maha El Dahan writes for Reuters. The decree states that any wheat shipments with an ergot content below 0.05% would be treated and accepted, while those with levels over 0.05% will be rejected. \u201cThis fixes a discrepancy in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-635903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"1914f976-2354-4cea-9d6d-292497d09307","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"8ab8e8ca-01d1-4376-95ce-6c178c3ea6fb","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[635883],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nAgriculture Ministry brings ergot policy in line with rest of the government - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/12\/17\/agriculture-ministry-brings-ergot-policy-in-line-with-rest-of-the-government\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Agriculture Ministry brings ergot policy in line with rest of the government\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More sanity? 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