This year’s wheat harvest will be one of the best in terms of area under cultivation, according to head of the Egyptian Farmers Syndicate Hussein Abu Saddam. Some 3,650,000 feddans (a feddan is slightly larger than an acre) were cultivated this season, the largest area ever, according to Abu Saddam. Moreover, as an incentive to […]
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This year’s wheat harvest will be one of the best in terms of area under cultivation, according to head of the Egyptian Farmers Syndicate Hussein Abu Saddam. Some 3,650,000 feddans (a feddan is slightly larger than an acre) were cultivated this season, the largest area ever, according to Abu Saddam. Moreover, as an incentive to farmers, the government has set a record price of LE1,500 per ardab (about 150 kg) for the wheat it purchases from them this season. This is 74 per cent higher than last year’s price, according to Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait. Ashraf Kamal, professor of Agricultural Economy at the Academy of Agricultural Research, is equally upbeat. “This is an outstanding season thanks to the government’s strong policies in favour of farmers,” he said. He pointed out that the government had initially set the price of an ardab of wheat at LE1,250, but then raised it to LE1,500 in sufficient time before the agricultural season began. “So far, it looks like this is going ...
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