Egypt’s wheat output reaches 11m tonnes, agriculture minister tells Senate

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Egypt’s agriculture minister told the Senate that wheat production reached 11 million tonnes in 2026 and cultivated land expanded to 10.5 million feddans. He outlined a food security strategy built around five pillars.

Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Alaa Farouk presented his ministry’s food security strategy to a plenary session of the Senate, telling lawmakers that wheat output had risen to 11 million tonnes in 2026 and that the country’s farmland had expanded to 10.5 million feddans. Farouk said the strategy rests on five pillars: expanding […]