Egypt buys Romanian, Ukrainian wheat

Egypt, the world's biggest importer of wheat, bought 240,000 tonnes of Romanian and Ukrainian wheat for shipment September 11-20, the vice chairman of the main government wheat buying entity, said on Tuesday. Mamdouh Abdel Fattah, of the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), gave the following breakdown of the purchases:
It was Egypt's fourth international tender since February and the third since the departure of President Mohamed Mursi in a popular uprising backed by the army on July 3. Egypt usually buys around 10 million tonnes of wheat per year from international markets and uses a mixture of domestic and imported wheat to for its subsidised bread programme that feeds millions of Egyptians.