Egypt mulls mixing sweet potato with wheat flour to produce subsidized bread

Published 2022년 6월 27일

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The Egyptian government is contemplating a move to reduce wheat imports by half a million tons by introducing dried white sweet potato in the subsidized bread dough. The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade is also looking into increasing the flour extraction rate from wheat. The ministry has received 3.920 million tons of local wheat so far this year, with deliveries expected to continue until August. In response to the global food crisis, wheat prices have surged, leading the Egyptian General Authority for Supply Commodities to purchase 465,000 tons of wheat from Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria.

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CAIRO – 27 June 2022: The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade Ali al-Moselhy stated Sunday that the government mulls mixing mashed dried white sweet potato with wheat flour to produce subsidized bread, as that can reduce the country's imports of wheat by half a million tons. The minister added that one of the ideal solutions at present is raising the percentage of flour extraction from wheat to 87.5 percent up from 82 percent. It is noted that one loaf of subsidized bread costs 80 piasters and sold at five piasters with a maximum of five loaves per beneficiary a day. The minister elaborated that the country had considered adding barley to wheat flour but the idea was not practical. That is because of the insufficiency of the local production of the crop, as only 220,000 feddans (one feddan equals 4,500 square meters) are cultivated with barley and their output is 200,000 tons. The minister also pointed out that the harvest is mostly used in the production ...

Source: Egypttoday