CAIRO – 15 April 2022: India's Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said that his country is ready to start exporting wheat to Egypt. "Egypt has adopted India as a supplier of wheat, we are ready to start exporting wheat to Egypt," Goyal wrote on Twitter. He added in another tweet: “Egypt approves India as a wheat supplier. Egyptian Minister of Agriculture El Sayyed El Qusseir announced in a statement on Thursday that India has been recognized as a new country of origin for importing wheat within the framework of the state’s plan to open new sources of importing wheat as a strategic commodity. Over the past several days, the Egyptian delegation was briefed on the Indian phytosanitary systems, inspection and control of grain exports and methods of pest control and resistance, said Farahat.

Source: Egypt Today April 15, 2022 21:22 UTC