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Egpyt tries to adapt to drop in Russian cereal supplies and Indian embargo

Published on 20.06.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

Workers collect wheat at the Banha grain silos, in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, 25 May 2022. © Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/MaxPPP

Egypt is having great difficulty importing large quantities of Russian wheat, which represented nearly 60% of its purchases prior to the war in Ukraine. Cairo is now trying to negotiate with New Delhi in the hope of ensuring a partial lifting of the embargo on Indian wheat.

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Egypt
Egpyt tries to adapt to drop in Russian cereal supplies and Indian embargo

Egypt is having great difficulty importing large quantities of Russian wheat, which represented nearly 60% of its purchases prior to the war in Ukraine. Cairo is now trying to negotiate with New Delhi in the hope of ensuring a partial lifting of the embargo on Indian wheat.

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Egypt Egpyt tries to adapt to drop in Russian cereal supplies and Indian embargo

Egypt is having great difficulty importing large quantities of Russian wheat, which represented nearly 60% of its purchases prior to the war in Ukraine. Cairo is now trying to negotiate with New Delhi in the hope of ensuring a partial lifting of the embargo on Indian wheat.

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Egypt
Egpyt tries to adapt to drop in Russian cereal supplies and Indian embargo

Egypt
International Grains Council tries to lure Cairo back

Egypt
Cairo picks unknown Grainflower to supply Russian wheat

Egypt
Cairo still struggles to find wheat as war in Ukraine continues

Spotlight | India, Senegal
Macky Sall makes moves as India's rice protectionism puts Dakar on edge

Egypt
France to provide financing for the storage of 500,000 tonnes of wheat

Egypt
Cairo banks on IMF to save wheat-starved private flour mills

Egypt, France, India
French wheat traders descend on Egypt

Africa, Turkey
Turkish traders play key role in delivering Russian and Ukrainian wheat to Africa

Egypt, Ethiopia
Responsibility for GERD bounced back to Sameh Shoukry

Nigeria
First Indian wheat shipload sets sail for Nigeria

North Africa
How Italy's Casillo became a key player in Tunisia's cereal market

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How OAIC cereals board provides daily bread to Algerians despite Ukraine war and scandals

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France fine-tunes FARM food security plan, as US preps its own initiative

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