A farmer tends to a wheat farm in the El-Dakahlia governorate north of Cairo, Egypt, February 16, 2016 (Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
CAIRO: Egyptian Agriculture Minister Essam Fayed told lawmakers on Monday that 2.4 mln feddans (around 1 mln hectares) were cultivated with wheat this year, state news agency MENA reported.
Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Irrigation, to which Fayed was speaking, recommended the price of wheat be raised to 650 Egyptian pounds ($34.21) per ardab (150 kg).
(Reporting by Ali Abdelaty; Writing Ahmed Aboulenein; Editingby Greg Mahlich)
