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Egypt - Continuing Crisis of Bread & Fuel

sharon sanders

Editor-in-Chief & President
Crises of bread and fuel .. صداع فى رأس الحكومة المصرية Headache in the head of the Egyptian government

Mr. Hani numbers - saw the cities and villages of Egypt's bread crisis, resulting in many fierce battles and quarrels took place between the citizens because they were long periods of time in front of the bakery to get a loaf of bread, driven up the prices of subsidized commodities, including wheat.



The result of such bickering deaths and injuries, prompting a demonstration Mutnon also issued warnings of the possibility of a popular uprising.

بل وتجمهر المئات من أهالي قرية بالفيوم أمام الوحدة المحلية للقرية احتجاجاً علي إلغاء مستودعات الدقيق وتحويلها إلي مخابز.

And even hundreds of people thronged the village of Fayoum to the local unit of the village in protest against the cancellation of warehouses flour and turn them into a bakery.

وفي الاسكندرية تظاهر العديد من المواطنين في أحياء متفرقة وذلك بعد اختفاء الخبز المدعم نتيجة لقيام العديدين من أصحاب الأفران ببيع الدقيق في السوق السوداء.

In Alexandria, demonstrated a number of citizens in different districts, after the disappearance of subsidized bread, a result of many of the furnaces of the sale of flour on the black market.

وفي أحياء مثل الشاطبي ومحرم بك والمنشية وباكوس والسيوف عمت حالة من الاستياء الواسع وذلك بعد اختفاء الخبز المدعم وظهوره في الأسواق بخمسة أضعاف سعره.

In districts such as Muharram and Chatby your Mansheya Backus and swords and society of widespread disaffection, after the disappearance of subsidized bread and the appearance on the market five times the price.

وفي محافظة المنيا ندد آلاف المواطنون الغاضبين باختفاء الخبز المدعم وطالبوا بضرورة أن تقف الحكومة بجانبهم وأن تعمل علي توفير رغيف الخبز والذي أصبح يمثل بالنسبة لهم حائط الصد الأخير للبقاء علي ظهر الحياة.

In the province of Minya denounced the disappearance of thousands of angry citizens subsidized bread and demanded that the government must stand by them and to provide a loaf of bread, which has become a wall for them to regard the latter to stay on the life.

وانضمت الصحف الحكومية إلى منتقدي السياسات الاقتصادية خاصة لوزارتي المالية والاستثمار عبر عناوين وصور كاريكاتيرية تهاجم الحكومة.

Joined the critics of the government press, especially the economic policies of the ministries of finance and investment across the headlines and pictures of cartoons attacking the Government.

وتقول الحكومة أنها تنتج كل يوم مائتين وعشرة ملايين رغيف مدعم وهي كمية تكفي محدودي الدخل لكن وزارة التضامن الاجتماعي ارجعت الازمة إلي زيادة معدلات تهريب الدقيق من المخابز وبيعه لتجار السوق السوداء.

The government says it produces each day hundred and ten million supported bread, enough for low-income brackets, but the Ministry of Social Solidarity, attributed the crisis to an increase in the smuggling of flour to bakeries and selling black market traders.

وتعمل الحكومة علي تأمين الخبز من خلال دعم الرغيف بنحو 15 مليار جنيه عبر منح الدقيق لأصحاب المخابز مباشرة بسعر منخفض، فضلا عن منح صلاحيات واسعة للمحافظين لضبط وضمان توزيع الخبز بصورة عادلة على المواطنين.

The Government is working to secure the bread loaf through the support of about 15 billion pounds by giving the exact owners of the bakery directly at a low price, as well as for granting broad powers of the governors to control and ensure the fair distribution of bread to citizens.

وفي حين شدد وزير التضامن علي أن الدعم المالي أفضل بكثير من دعم السلع وذلك لأن تجار السوق السوداء في نهاية الأمر يحصلون علي الدعم، طالب خبراء بضرورة تحسين الرغيف وتشديد الاجهزة الرقابية كحل للازمة.

While the minister stressed that the solidarity of financial support is much better support because the goods and black market traders in the end receive support, experts called for the need to improve the loaf and the strengthening of the regulatory agencies as a solution to the crisis.

واصدر وزير التضامن قرار بفصل انتاج الخبز عن توزيعه لتفادي الازمة لكن مع زيادة طوابير الخبز امر الرئيس مبارك بإسناد مهمة توزيع الخبز إلي وزارتي الداخلية والدفاع حتي يحول ذلك دون قيام بعض أصحاب المخابز بتهريب الدقيق المدعم وبيعه بأسعار مضاعفة.

The Minister of Solidarity's decision to separate the production of bread for distribution to avoid the crisis, but with the increase in bread lines, President Mubarak is assigning the task of distributing bread to the Ministries of Interior and Defense to preclude the fact that some of the bakeries and the smuggling of subsidized flour to sell at high prices.

وتعهد رئيس الوزراء بانتهاء الازمة خلال فترة زمنية لكن الازمة تفاقمت ولم تحل .

The prime minister vowed to end the crisis over a period of time but did not resolve the crisis worsened.

ازمة اختفاء الوقود The disappearance of the fuel crisis

ادت ازمة اختفاء السولار إلي توقف عدد كبير من المخابز وارتفاع أسعار ري المزارع في معظم المحافظات المصرية.

The crisis of the disappearance of diesel to the suspension of a large number of bakeries and the high prices of farm irrigation in most of the governorates.

وانخفضت نسبة المعروض من السولار في بعض المحافظات الي 50%.

The proportion of the supply of diesel in some provinces to 50%.

وقفزت أسعار الخضروات وأجرة ركوب السيارات بشكل كبير، كما اندلعت مشاجرات في بعض محطات الوقود أثناء التزاحم للحصول علي السولار، وسط اتهامات للحكومة بتعمد إخفاء السولار، تمهيداً لرفع سعره.

The price of vegetables and the taxi ride is a great car, as scuffles broke out in some fuel stations during the scramble to get a diesel, amid accusations that the government of deliberately concealing diesel, a prelude to lifting the price.

وكان السولار قد ارتفع سعره من 800 إلي 1096 جنيها خلال شهرين فقط مدفوعا بارتفاع اسعاره العالمية مع ارتفاع أسعار النفط حيث وصل سعر البرميل وقتها إلى أكثر من 100 دولار متزامنا مع التراجع الملحوظ في قيمة الدولار الأمريكي.

Was increased diesel price from 800 to 1096 pounds in two months only driven up world prices with higher oil prices as the price of a barrel and then to more than $ 100 coincided with a marked decline in the value of the U.S. dollar.

وقال رئيس الوزراء انه لا توجد زيادة فى أسعار الوقود، لان "أى نظرة لموضوع أسعار الطاقة يرتبط أساسا بالعلاقة بين الأسعار ودخول المواطنين، وبالتالى لانستطيع أن ننظر لجانب من المعادلة بدون الجانب الآخر".

The prime minister said there was no increase in fuel prices, because "any view to the issue of energy prices is associated primarily with the relationship between prices and incomes of citizens, and therefore can not be seen by the side of the equation without the other."

وارجع مصدر مسئول بقطاع البترول ما حدث إلي قيام الحكومة منذ ثلاثة أشهر بزيادة أسعار المازوت لتصل إلي ألف جنيه للطن وإبقاء سعر السولار عند‏900‏ جنيه للطن دون زيادة‏‏ وهو ما أدي إلي قيام كبار مستهلكي المازوت بخلطة بالسولار توفيرا للتكاليف وللحصول علي معدل احتراق أفضل‏‏ كما تحول عدد غير قليل منهم إلي استهلاك السولار بدلا من المازوت وهو ما أدي إلي ارتفاع الطلب علي السولار بصورة كبيرة وغير متوقعة‏.‏

The official attributed the source of the oil sector happened to the Government three months ago to increase prices of diesel oil for up to one thousand pounds to keep the price per ton and diesel at 900 pounds per ton, without an increase, which led to the top consumers of diesel mixing Balsolar in order to save costs and to obtain the rate of combustion better shift of a few of them to the consumption of diesel instead of diesel, which led to a rise in demand for oil in a large and unexpected.

وأشار المصدر إلي عدم وجود أي توجه حالي لزيادة أسعار السولار برغم أن ذلك يمثل الحل الأمثل لمواجهة الفجوة السعرية مع المازوت مؤكدا أن تحريك سعر السولار سوف يؤدي إلي ارتفاعات كبيرة في أسعار وسائل النقل‏,‏ وكذلك عدد كبير من السلع والمنتجات الزراعية‏.‏

The source pointed out that there is no guide to the current rise in the prices of diesel, although this is the best solution to address the gap with the price of diesel, stressing that the oil price move will lead to significant increases in the prices of means of transport, as well as a large number of commodities and agricultural products.

ونفي المصدر أن تكون عمليات التهريب هي سبب ما حدث حيث إن التهريب ليس له وقت محدد وليس واردا أن يكون بكميات كبيرة تؤثر علي المعروض بالسوق‏,‏ لأن عمليات نقل السولار وتهريبه ليست بالسهولة التي يتخيلها البعض‏.‏

The source denied that the smuggling is the reason for what happened in that smuggling does not have a specific time and there is no way to be in large quantities to affect the market before, because of the transfer and smuggling of diesel is not as easy as imagined by some.

ومع اقرار الزيادات الجديدة بالفعل حدثت حالة من الارتباك محطات وقود السيارات وحدثت مشادات واضطرابات في كثير من محطات القاهرة والمحافظات.

With the approval of the new increases have already taken place a state of confusion stations and motor fuel and there have been altercations and riots in many of the stations, Cairo and other governorates.

واقرت المحافظات الزيادات الجديدة في تعريفة الركوب التي وصلت الي اكثر من 50% في بعض المحافظات.

The approved increases in the provinces of passenger tariff, which amounted to more than 50% in some provinces.

كما تاثرت مصانع الطوب الطفلي وكذا صناع مواد البناء والأسمنت بقرار حكومي بزيادة أسعار المازوت والبيتومين بداية العام.

Brick factories were also affected by infantile as well as makers of construction materials and cement government decision to increase prices of diesel and bitumen the beginning of the year.

وتضمن القرار زيادة أسعار المازوت من 500 جنيه للطن إلي 1000 جنيه للطن بنسبة زيادة 100%.

The resolution included a rise in the prices of fuel oil from 500 pounds to 1000 pounds per ton, an increase of 100%.

كما زاد سعر البيتومين من 892 جنيها للطن إلي 1111 جنيها بنسبة زيادة 20% وكان سعره لا يتجاوز الشهر الماضي 550 جنيها للطن مما يعني أن سعره ارتفع مرتين بنسبة 100% خلال شهرين.

As the price of bitumen from 892 pounds to 1111 pounds per ton, up 20% and the price not to exceed last month, 550 per ton, which means that the price has risen by 100% twice in two months.

وادي القرار إلي رفع سعر الطوب من 180 جنيها للالف الي 360 جنيها في مصانع الطوب التي ويعمل بها نحو 250 ألف عامل .

The decision lead to raising the price of bricks from a 180 pounds to 360 pounds in the brick factories, which employ about 250 workers.

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Re: Egypt - Continuing Crisis of Bread & Fuel

Back ?bread queues? to Sohag, South Sinai .. واستمرار أزمة ?القمح الأوكرانى? The continuing crisis of ?Ukrainian wheat?

كتب المحافظات - عبدالعال طلعت ومحمد السيد سليمان وحسين الأمير وهدى الساعاتى وأيمن أبوزيد وإبراهيم صديق ومصباح الحجر ١٩/ ١/ ٢٠٠٩

Books provinces - Mohamed Abdel Aal, Talat and Mr. Suleiman and Amir Hussein and Al Huda, Ayman Abu Zaid Ibrahim friend and stone lamp 1-19-2009
[The return of bread lines in the provinces]
عودة طوابير الخبز فى المحافظات

The return of bread lines in the provinces

تجددت أزمة الخبز فى عدد من المحافظات، حيث عادت الطوابير إلى سوهاج وجنوب سيناء بالتزامن مع رداءة الخبز بسبب استخدام القمح الأوكرانى، ورفض أعضاء المجالس المحلية فى الأقصر تجربة فصل الإنتاج عن التوزيع التى وصفوها بأنها ساهمت فى زيادة الأزمة، فيما استمرت أزمة أصحاب المخابز فى الإسكندرية والمهددين بإغلاقها بسبب عدم تطويرها.

Bread crisis flared in a number of provinces, which returned to the queues of Sohag, South Sinai in conjunction with the poor quality of bread because of the use of Ukrainian wheat, and was rejected by members of local councils in Luxor on the experience of the separation of production and distribution, which they described as contributing to the increase in the crisis, a crisis with owners of bakeries in Alexandria and threatened to shut down because of lack of development.

فى سوهاج انتشرت الطوابير أمام منافذ التوزيع والمخابز بصورة كبيرة، وأرجع مواطنون تجدد الأزمة إلى البطاقات التى يتم توزيع الخبز بموجبها فى ٥ مراكز، إلى جانب عدم إحكام الرقابة على المخابز، متهمين أصحاب المخابز باستغلال نظام البطاقات فى بيع الخبز المدعم إلى أصحاب المطاعم.

Sohag were queues in front of distribution outlets and bakeries are great, and were attributed to the renewed crisis cards, which are distributed in the bread which the 5 centers, as well as tighter control of the bakery, bakery owners accused of taking advantage of the cards in the sale of subsidized bread to the owners of restaurants.

قالت حليمة أبوزيد، من أهالى المدينة، إنها لم تحصل على بطاقة خبز، مما يجعلها تقف نحو ٣ ساعات أمام منفذ التوزيع للحصول على احتياجاتها، لافتة إلى أنها فى النهاية تحصل على خبز سيئ للغاية.

Halima Abu-Zeid said, the people of the city, she did not get the bread card, making it stand about 3 hours before the distribution outlet for their needs, a sign that they finally get the bread is very bad.

واتهم إسماعيل بيومى، على المعاش أصحاب المخابز باستغلال نظام البطاقات وبيع الخبز إلى أصحاب المطاعم، واصفًا ما يتم بيعه لهم بأنه خبز جيد للغاية، بينما ما يباع للمواطنين لا يصلح للاستهلاك الآدمى، وأرجع صاحب أحد المخابز سوء الخبز، إلى سوء حالة الدقيق الذى يتم توزيعه على المخابز.

He is accused of Bayoumi, the bakery owners to exploit the pension system of cards and the sale of bread to the owners of restaurants, describing what is being sold to them as a very good bread, while the sale of the citizens is not fit for human consumption, and attributed the poor a bakery bread, flour to the poor condition of which is distributed the bakeries.

وقالت أحلام عبدالله، موظفة، إن أزمة الخبز لم يتم حلها من الأساس ومستمرة منذ شهور طويلة، لكنها زادت مؤخرًا بسبب نظام البطاقات.

She dreams of Abdullah, an employee, the bread crisis is not resolved from the ground up and has been going on for many months, but has increased recently because of the cards.

وفى البحر الأحمر، أعلن المهندس أحمد دعبيس، مدير عام التموين، عن ضبط ٥ أطنان دقيق مدعم معبأة فى أجولة مكتوب عليها أنها دقيق سياحى، مهربة من سوهاج فى مخزن خاص بأحد المخابز السياحية فى مدينة الغردقة، لافتًا إلى أنه تحرر محضر بالواقعة وأحيل صاحب المخبز إلى النيابة.

In the Red Sea, the Dobeis Ahmed, General Manager of Supply, the seizure of 5 tons of flour packed in sacks supported by written as a tourist accurate, smuggled from Sohag in a special warehouse in a bakery in the tourist town of Hurghada, pointing out that liberalization of the record of the incident and referred the bakery to the prosecution.

وقرر المحافظ مجدى قبيصى، حظر استخدام الخبز المدعم فى المطاعم فى مختلف الأنحاء، وإغلاق المطاعم التى تخالف القرار.

The governor Magdi Aqbisy, prohibition of the use of subsidized bread in restaurants in various parts, and the closure of restaurants that violate the resolution. وقال سيد أبوالفتوح، سكرتير عام المحافظة، إنه تقرر تشكيل لجان متابعة ومرورعلى جميع المحال فى جميع المدن.

Obwafattouh said Syed, secretary-general of the province, it was decided to set up committees to follow up and Mroraly all the shops in all cities.

وفى الأقصر، اتفق رؤساء المجالس المحلية، ورؤساء لجان التموين فيها على رفض الاستمرار فى تطبيق تجربة فصل الإنتاج عن التوزيع، لافتين إلى أنها لم تنه أزمة الخبز، لكنها زادت الأمر سوءًا، مطالبين بتشديد الرقابة على المخابز لضمان ضبط الإنتاج، والتوزيع بدلاً من الفصل.

In Luxor, the heads of local councils, committees and the heads of the supply to continue to reject the application of the experience of the separation of production from distribution, the long time it did not end the crisis of bread, but it has worsened, calling for tightened control over the bakery to ensure the control of production, distribution, instead of the chapter.

وفى جنوب سيناء، عادت الطوابير مرة أخرى إلى مدن المحافظة، واشتكى مواطنون من سوء الخبز الذى وصفوه بأنه ?أسوأ رغيف خبز على مستوى الجمهورية? وأطلقوا عليه ?السحلة?.

In South Sinai, queues again returned to the cities of the province, residents complained of poor bread, which they described as ?the worst loaf of bread at the level of the Republic? and shot him ?Shlp?.

قال عدد من أهالى مدينة الطور إن الزحام أمام المخابز عاد مجددًا، وانتشرت الطوابير، لافتين إلى أن المخابز تعمل فترة واحدة، ولا يوجد فصل للإنتاج عن التوزيع رغم أن المحافظة اشترت منافذ أصبحت مأوى للقطط والكلاب الضالة.

A number of people crowding the city to stage the bakery has returned once again, and spread queues, long time for the bakery to work one period, and there is no separation of production from distribution, despite that the preservation bought outlets has become a haven for stray cats and dogs.


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Re: Egypt - Continuing Crisis of Bread & Fuel

Fall victim to a new ?bread? in Fayoum

كتب محمود عمر ٩/ ٣/ ٢٠٠٩​
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شهدت محافظة الفيوم سقوط ضحية جديدة بسبب النزاع على الخبز، إذ تلقى عامل فى أحد المخابز طعنة قاتلة، أدت إلى إصابته بنزيف حاد توفى على أثره بعد وصوله المستشفى.​



Fayoum governorate witnessed the fall of the victim because of the dispute over the new bread, which is received in a fatal stab in the bakery, which has led to a severe hemorrhage, died on impact after his arrival the hospital.




كان اللواء محمد السعيد، مدير أمن الفيوم، تلقى إخطارًا من الدكتور محمد عزمى، مدير مستشف​
ى الفيوم العام، يفيد بوصول جمعة محمد أحمد داوود ?٣٥ سنة? عامل مخبز، مصابًا بجر نافذ فى الصدر إثر طعنة بآلة حادة ?مطواة?، مما أحدث له نزيفًا، وتوفى فور وصوله للمستشفى.​





Maj. Muhammad Al-Said, director of security Fayyoum, received notification from Dr. Mohammad Azimi, Director of Fayoum General Hospital, according to the arrival of Juma Mohammad Daoud Ahmed ?35 years? a working bakery, with a wound in the chest after the force was stabbed with a sharp instrument ?knife?, causing him bleeding, and died upon arrival to the hospital.




وأمر مدير الأمن بتشكيل فريق بحث تحت قيادة العميد السيد جاد الحق، مدير إدارة البحث الجنائى، وكشفت تحريات المقدم أسامة جمعة، رئيس مباحث قسم الفيوم، أن مشاجرة حدثت بين عامل المخبز بمنطقة الحاكورة فى الفيوم، ومواطن يدعى وليد أحمد جمعة ?٢٨ سنة? من أبجيج.​



The Security Director is to form a research team under the command of Brigadier-General, Mr. Gad al-Haq, Director, Department of Criminal Investigation, and revealed by inquiries Osama Gomaa, President of Fayoum Investigation Section, an altercation occurred between the workers in the bakery Alhakorp in Fayoum, and a man named Walid Ahmed Gomaa, ?28 years? of the Objeej.




وأوضحت التحريات أن المتهم كان قد اشترى الخبز قبل موعد تسليمه للجمعية المكلفة بتوزيعه، وعندما رفض العامل إعطاءه الخبز حدثت مشاجرة بينهما، تطورت إلى تشابك بالأيدى، وبادر المتهم بضرب المجنى عليه بمطواة فى صدره، مما تسبب فى حدوث نزيف حاد ونقل إلى مستشفى الفيوم العام وتوفى فور وصوله.​



The investigation that the defendant had bought the bread before the date of the extradition of the General in charge of distributing, and when he refused to give the bread a quarrel occurred between them, have evolved to the complexity of hands, and took the suspect to strike the victim in the chest by a knife, causing a severe bleeding and was taken to hospital and died Fayyoum General upon arrival.


ألقى القبض على المتهم وتحرر محضر بالواقعة تحت رقم ٢٨٨٢، وأحيل إلى وائل عبدالحميد، مدير النيابة، الذى أمر بحبسه ٤ أيام على ذمة التحقيق، وانتداب الطب الشرعى لبيان سبب الوفاة قبل التصريح بدفن الجثة.​



Arrested the accused and the emancipation of the record of the incident under No. 2882, and transferred to the Wael Abdul Hamid, Director of Public Prosecutions, who ordered him 4 days of the investigation, and the assignment of the forensic cause of death before a permit to bury the body.


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60% self-sufficiency in wheat

Iskandar Ahmad wrote:

He and Amin Abaza, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, the State is committed to the purchase of wheat crop from farmers to set prices despite a global decline.

The minister added that the wheat production this year bodes well, where it was the cultivation of more than three thousand acres of productive and achieve self-sufficiency more than 60% and we aim to increase in the coming years up to 70%.

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This is from April 2008:

EGYPT: The Global Makes the Local Worse

CAIRO, Apr 28 (IPS) - The appearance of long breadlines outside state-run distribution centres in recent weeks has raised fears of possible bread shortages. Although the government has taken measures aimed at easing the crisis, experts point to soaring international wheat prices that have made the commodity more costly for households worldwide.

"Wheat prices jumped 20 percent on the local market last year," Hamdi Abdel Azim, former professor of economics at Cairo's Sadat Academy told IPS. "But during the same period, global prices rose by a whopping 120 percent."

According to official statements, Egypt's economy is growing at a rate of roughly 7 percent a year, and is set to grow further. But despite this rosy outlook, the vast majority of Egypt's teeming population of 80 million has yet to feel the benefits of stated macro-economic growth.

In fact, most Egyptians complain that times have never been harder. With inflation soaring across the board, local prices of basic foodstuffs - including such staples as bread, rice and pasta - have tripled in recent months.

Per capita income, meanwhile, has failed to keep pace with rising prices. The past year has seen an unprecedented number of labour strikes and demonstrations, with workers angrily insisting on higher wages to meet soaring costs of living.

Even discounting inflation, Egypt's situation is precarious: according to World Bank estimates, the number of Egyptians living in poverty - on a dollar per day or less - stands at roughly 20 percent of the population. Many independent observers have put the number as high as 50 percent.

Tellingly, recent weeks have seen the appearance of long queues outside of bakeries mandated with distributing state-subsidised bread, which sells for one fifth of the normal retail price. According to local reports, these breadlines have become the scene of occasional violence between frustrated - and hungry - patrons.

In an effort to ensure the availability of low-priced bread to low-income segments of the population, the government announced in March that the armed forces and police would help produce and distribute bread in and around the capital. Shortly afterwards, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif announced a 15 percent salary raise for state employees.

Given soaring global wheat prices, however, some local commentators see these measures as little more than stop-gap in nature.

"These steps solved about 40 percent of the problem," Mohammed Sami, assistant professor of agro-economy at the agriculture ministry's Centre for Desert Research told IPS. "The crisis has eased in the cities - due largely to the media attention it received - but breadlines are still a common feature in the countryside."

Despite once having been the "bread basket" of the Mediterranean, Egypt currently imports between seven and eight million tonnes of wheat every year to satisfy local demand. This represents roughly 55 percent of the country's total domestic wheat consumption, estimated at some 14 million tonnes annually.

Informed observers note that as long as Egypt is a net importer of wheat, it will remain at the mercy of international price fluctuations.

Although global wheat prices have since fallen slightly, they hit a record high - 13.50 dollars per bushel - in February. In a recent policy statement, Nazif cited rising global prices, particularly for oil and wheat, as the chief cause of soaring domestic food prices.

According to media reports, international wheat reserves are at their lowest levels in decades. Within the last three years, serious drought in major growing areas, including the U.S. and Australia, has led to severe shortfalls in cereal stocks around the world.

Some experts have expressed concern that global wheat supplies could suffer further depletion by the spread of the Ug99 strain of wheat fungus.

Devastating to wheat yields and resistant to most fungicides, Ug99 was first reported in Uganda in 1999. Since then, the blight, also known as stem rust, has reportedly infected crops in north and east Africa, as well as Yemen and Iran.

In early March, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation warned that, should the fungus spread further, wheat harvests in the Mediterranean region were also potentially at risk.

According to a report released this month by the UN-funded International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), current global food insecurity "threatens millions."

The IAASTD attributed soaring global prices partly to the reckless production of bio-fuels - driven by high world energy prices - which has risen at the expense of traditional food crops such as maize and wheat.

"Although the government has put an end to the practice, multinational companies were initially offering local farmers five times the usual price for their wheat harvests for use in bio-fuel production," said Sami.

The IAASTD report also blamed rising global prices on climate changes that have led to decreased harvests, higher energy costs and speculation on the cereal futures market. The report concluded by calling for a major reassessment of agricultural practices worldwide in order to allay the potentially adverse social effects of soaring food prices.

Local commentators say the answer lies in Egypt's ability to achieve a degree of agricultural self-sufficiency.

"The crisis can't be solved without increasing local wheat production," said Abdel Azim. "This can be done if the government reverses its policy of buying from international markets, and persuades local farmers to grow wheat instead of more lucrative crops."

According to Sami, however, Egypt's prospects for self-sufficiency remain hindered by the government's commitment to big business.

"Egypt has the ability to supply itself with wheat," said Sami. "But there are businessmen close to the government making a killing on imports - and they are keen to maintain the state's longstanding policy of buying wheat abroad." (END/2008)

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from April 2009:

In Egypt, detentions, but no general strike (News Feature)
Middle East Features
By dpa correspondents Apr 6, 2009, 17:58 GMT

Cairo - What a difference a year makes in Egypt.

Last April 6, teargas filled the streets of the Nile Delta industrial town of Mahalla al-Kobra as rioters firebombed buildings, hurled rocks at riot police, and toppled a freestanding poster of Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak. At least two people were killed in clashes with the police and dozens more were wounded.

The riots followed violence in bread queues at government-subsidized bakeries, as spiraling wheat prices drove more of the country's urban poor to rely on subsidized bread.

A small group of Internet-savvy activists, smelling revolution in the air, at the time used the social-networking websites Facebook and Twitter to call for a national strike in support of Mahalla's textile workers, who planned a strike for April 6, 2008. Egypt's opposition press endorsed their calls, and thousands joined the group organizers created on Facebook.

They became known as the 'Facebook Youth,' or the 'April 6 movement,' and they caught the imagination of the international news media to such an extent that James Glassman, former US under secretary of state for public diplomacy, last November identified them as 'Egypt's largest opposition group.'

But since March 2008, or around the time the 'Facebook Youth' were born as a group, the price of wheat - of which Egypt imports 7.5 million tonnes a year, more than any other country in the world - has dropped more than 57 per cent. Last week, Egypt's Ministry of Social Solidarity said the country had 2 million ton of grain stored, enough to last the country four months.

Which may help explain why, despite calls for a general strike originally posted on the social networking website Facebook and amplified in Egypt's opposition newspapers, few heeded the calls this year.

'Do you see a strike? There is no strike,' Mohammed Hassan, a lawyer, told the German Press Agency dpa from the streets of downtown Cairo on Monday. 'All we see is intense security and media propaganda. Maybe the invitation to strike was private.'

'April 6? What are you talking about?' university student Samira Ahmed asked. 'No, I haven't heard anything about it.'

Perhaps anticipating this response, the organizers of the 'April 6 movement' - a loose coalition of online activists, students and, after a last-minute endorsement Thursday, members of Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood - had recently begun calling for 'a day of rage' instead of a general strike.

'It is not so much the day of a strike, but a day of rage,' Ayman Nour, the former head of the Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, told dpa from the steps of downtown Cairo's Press Syndicate, where perhaps 50 people gathered to chant 'Down with Mubarak!'

Nour, who spent more than three years in prison on fraud charges after he ran against President Hosny Mubarak in the 2005 presidential elections, was released from prison in February.

At the Press Syndicate and at similar protests at universities around Cairo and in Alexandria, riot police and plainclothes officers vastly outnumbered protesters. Nine trucks full of police conscripts were on hand to reinforce riot police at the Press Syndicate.

The Hisham Mubarak Legal Centre, a Cairo-based rights group, on Monday said that security officers had detained five activists from the Nile Delta province of Minufiya and at least another five students were detained at protests at universities around Cairo on Monday.

Security officers on Sunday detained another nine activists from the Muslim Brotherhood in Shobra al-Khima, just north of Cairo, a source in the Interior Ministry told dpa on Monday.

Cairo's Youm al-Sabaa newspaper on Monday reported that police had arrested three other activists from al-Fayoum, roughly 150 kilometres southwest of Cairo.

George Ishaq, a leading organizer of the Kifaya (Enough) umbrella opposition group, blamed 'the security forces' terrorism' for the small size of Monday's protests.

'Considering how much security is in force, and the number of arrests, then the number of people at the protests is quite high,' Mohab al-Dib, a young Kifaya activist, said. 'It shows that there are still people who are not afraid.'

But Wael Abbas, a young blogger and journalist famous for posting videos depicting police brutality on the Internet, called the calls for a strike 'a media phenomenon which does not reflect reality on the ground.'

The young protesters who took part in Monday's demonstrations were undeterred.

'The Egyptian people are like camels,' al-Dib, the young Kifaya activist, said. 'They store everything up and then they explode. This is a revolutionary moment; the moment is coming soon.'



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Re: Egypt - Continuing Crisis of Bread & Fuel

? 50 increase in the supply of wheat on world prices

Salem wrote Metwaly 4-9 / 2009

The Minister of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture and Social Solidarity on the prices of wheat for the new season, during their meeting yesterday, a decision was made that the receipt of the price of wheat from farmers for 240 pounds ardebs degree of purity of 22.5, and up to 245 pounds per ardeb degree of purity of 23 and 250 pounds per ardeb degree of purity of 23. 5.

Committee has been set up to collect the wheat with Development and Agricultural Credit Bank and the Holding Company for Food Industries, in addition to the magazines of the mills that the Commission recognizes the wheat from the chairmanship of the representative of the general KWS to control imports, exports, and the membership of representatives of Supply and Agricultural Development Bank.

The decision by the cabinet to determine the prices of wheat, an increase of 50 pounds on the world prices of wheat to encourage farmers to increase the rate of supply of wheat to the State, but the price is 130 pounds less ardebs compared with last year's prices, which reached 380 pounds.

The high-level sources in the Ministry of Agriculture is expected to total up what is being supplied to the storage of wheat of the country to three million tons, stressing the need to check the prices announced by the State of supply, resulting in a larger-than-current prices, in order to sustain the the state's plan for expanding the cultivation of wheat.

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Communication of 4 citizens in the October 6 reveals the presence of animal waste in the flour ration cards
08/04/2009
4 cases of diarrhea due to address the children bread made of wheat flour .. And custody of the prosecution for analysis .. And the Under-?October Catering?: ?The two cases, but by the actor?
Documents: a draft waste thousands of pounds for the delivery of houses in the News Obokerkas .. And payment of bonuses to 86 thousand members of the Governing Council
Books: The Lord Khalid - Ahmed Khadr
Minya: Mary Rage
4 people found belonging to the village and the province received October 6, the day before yesterday, the remnants of the remnants of a strange animal and the objects of the color black in the subsidized flour spent their ration cards from the Directorate of Supply and free citizens, who are: Said Walch, A. Walch, Sami Almaadaoi, Ibrahim al-Battat, and record the incident in the police station Imbaba No. 2021 for the year 2009, the Public Prosecutor's custody and ordered to the exact analysis of random samples, and inspect the mills and warehouses that the disposal of the ration of the citizens. The citizen said Walch: ?I was surprised at the opening of Mobile, who received the strict emission from the warehouse skunk, and smells of livestock manure dry?, Walch and demanded the signing of a medical examination to the rest of the people of the village for fear of their cancer because of the use of scrutiny and disclosure, he said the citizen, Sami Almaadaoi four sons ?were diarrhea by eating bread made of flour and is currently being treated?. And Awad Hamid said that his wife discovered the existence of pieces of animal dung in the dry flour during the preparation of bread.
For his part, "said Mahmoud al-Hosni, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply province October 6, the waste was placed inside sacks by the actor, and denied the existence of 4 cases, saying:? but the two are ?. He added that a committee of the Directorate of Supply are periodically within the mills for the withdrawal and inspection of random samples, confirming that the packaging be automatic and will be preceded by a ?screening?.
A report of the Committee of Supply to the city's local council Obokerkas queens, wasted thousands of pounds of bread in the draft delivery of houses, and the separation of a number of financial irregularities in the project budget for the year 2007/2008 was the exchange rate of 86 thousand and 932 pounds of honoraria to members of the Governing Council and distributors, as well as the maintenance of 23 thousand and 550 pounds of bread rental car transport despite the presence of 3 cars for the project, as well as the purchase of $ 87 thousand Tr_i_lat Commission found that it does not exist within the city or abroad.
The report spending 40 thousand and 500 pounds on the bags of bread and spread the payment of salaries to work in Cairo, as well as failure to attend 90% of distributors and supervisors in the appointments pumping quantities of bread for the interests of the government in the days of holidays, as well as the presence of more than 5000 subscribers in rural areas outside of the children City Obokerkas.
The Committee recommended changing the project manager and his responsibility for the irregularities, and called for the identification of the numbers of participants with each distributor to a number not more than 150 participants to one distributor, and the purification of non-payroll project and the people of the city names and the compilation of the phantom shares of government during the holidays to sell at the point of sale to the public through the Directorate of Supply

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Farmers are angry at the price of wheat .. And expectations, down 35% in cultivation .. Egypt and imported 9 million tons

Books Nashwa Alhovy 4-15-2009

Prevailed in a state of anger among farmers after the announcement of the prices of wheat, which ranged between 240 pounds per ardeb the degree of purity of 22.5, and 250 pounds per ardeb the degree of purity of 23.5, a price which they considered a great loss to them, as they spend about 2000 pounds, compared to , along the length of the cultivation of up to 6 months, during which agriculture can not any other crops, which led many of them to stop advertising on the grown.

Said Omar Hussein, a farmer in Dakahliya that the government's forecast of the quantity of wheat, the official supplier of the stores, which amounts to 3 million ardebs, consistent, and announced a number of agricultural associations at the level of the Republic of the retreat area of land cultivated with wheat this year by an estimated 35% from last year.

He added: ?We hope that the government lift the rate of supply to between 340 and 360 pounds per ardeb, but the prices announced by the disappointing, because it does not cover the cost of agriculture, where the cost per acre about 2000 pounds, which means that the profit would not increase compared to 1000 pounds over the 6 months.

Asked Mohamed Salih, one of the status of farmers in the lake Cbrakhitt: ?The government says the price of wheat imported from Russia and Ukraine is cheaper than domestic production, the price of cotton is about 180 pounds, but is in the quality of local wheat?,

He added: ?we have followed in the newspapers and programs of cheap imported wheat scandal, corrupt, why do not support the farmers for the cultivation of this crop is important,

The price of imported wheat, which the government says it is cheaper, does not include expenses for transportation and freight up to the stores, and I, and others with me from farmers looking for a profit, and therefore is the cultivation of crops and pea Kalfol much better, it does not take a long time on the ground,

It is also profitable cost ?. For its part, the Government announced that represented by the ministries of trade and industry, agriculture, and social solidarity during a meeting in this April 8, the price of wheat for the new season, an increase of 50 pounds on the world prices to encourage farmers to increase the rate of supply of wheat to the State, however, that these prices are less ardebs 130 pounds compared to last year's prices, which reached 380 pounds.

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Poor quality of the bread loaf anger citizens
Escalate the crisis of bread wheat, corn mixed

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 14:45

Poor quality of the bread loaf anger citizens

Books Medhat Mohamed


From time to time we have a crisis looming municipal bread again, but this time were not the result of accumulation of citizens before the bakery or corruption of wheat used in the process of production of bread, but the result of mixing a large wheat-maize by the user, resulting in the production of bread is not in conformity specifications of the standard and not fit for human consumption destined in many provinces.

And Dr. Almeselhy to the Minister for Social Solidarity, has been confirmed not to increase the proportion of corn for wheat 15%, to preserve the non-diversion of subsidized flour and sold on the black market at high prices to manufacturers of sweets.


Abdel-Al Darwish, Chairman of the Division of Alexandria bakeries, he emphasized that the flour to bakeries, which sets out these days with more than corn on a mixed 15%, even as officials in the Ministry of social solidarity, that the proportion of corn ranged from 10 and 15% only, indicating that owners of the mills were manipulating the mixing ratio in the absence of effective control by the officials until the production of bread has become so bad, and not in conformity with the standard specifications.

Ahmed Ramadan, the bakery, he pointed out that the problems faced by the owners of the bakery with the citizens due to the failure of the production of bread flour is good because the bad, which is outside the control of the bakery owners to supply a result of milling wheat from a high proportion of maize.

He attributed the Hamza Undersecretary Menoufia, that the Directorate has launched campaigns on an ongoing basis to maintain all the mills to ensure compliance with the proportion of mixed wheat and maize according to the decisions of the ministry. And that in the event of breaches of the liberation of record against the manager, as well as the appointment of inspectors for the duration of the work of the mill in order to prevent manipulation of subsidized flour. He pointed out that so far has not received any complaints from owners of bakeries on the mixing ratio of the affected wheat corn.


For his part, rejected Hamdan Taha, head of the oversight and distribution of the Ministry of Social Solidarity to deteriorate to comment on the production of subsidized bread in the town these days is make people reluctant to buy the result exceeded the proportion of 15% for maize during the process of milling wheat in the mills, saying I have no permission to speak.

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Continuing crisis of petrol Badakkhlip 80 despite the increase in the share

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 10:09

When the crisis ends in the 80 governorates of gasoline?

Dakahliya Mohamed Saleh


80 petrol crisis continues despite Dakahlia province a greater share of the province by the daily 50 thousand liters per day, but the quantities were insufficient and, once it had been a declaration of a petrol station 80 to maintain the field on Wednesday, gathered in a large car, the army closed the street Mansoura.

A line stretching to the street cars mixed, and the traffic officers had to intervene to regulate the parking, that they requested from the station to raise the banner "There is no petrol 80" again, until control of the car, and put an end to the crisis caused by the traffic.

The Directorate of Supply stations warning owners not to sell petrol in jerry cans, because some people re-sell it again at up to 1.5 pounds of liter.

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today is the opening of the practice of strict municipal *‬82% *‬*‬in the four provinces which *: ‬*‬Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, Mersa Matrouh *‬supply *‬47 *‬thousand tons of flour during *‬3 *‬months to *‬541 *‬bakeries and 180 *‬warehouse accurate *. ‬The report, issued by the Ministry of Social Solidarity *‬sector catering to the practice to meet the requirements of the rations of the bakeries in the four provinces *‬*‬where there is a shortage on *‬*‬estimated *‬270 *‬*‬tons Menya share *‬331 *‬bakeries *. ‬The report added that there *‬*‬deficit quotas *‬44 *‬*‬bakeries in the province of Assiut, including equivalent *‬*‬70 *‬*‬tons per day of these bakeries, there is a lack of *‬Beni Suef *‬*‬35 *‬*‬tons a day to share *‬51 *‬and the lack of a bakery in the table *‬*‬85 *‬*‬tons per day of the exact share *‬151 *‬bakeries and 180 *‬repository for the distribution of flour to the citizens *‬* http://66.102.7.132/translate_c?hl=...=18613&usg=ALkJrhgvqkeo2ip0b5sqVLTyuhl3sJCFjQ .
 
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150 machines have been added in 16 provinces to add iron to the flour

Almeselhi: 150 for a mix of iron
Flour mills in the cost of 80 million pounds Mahmoud Diab wrote:
Dr. Ali Almeselhi Minister of Social Solidarity has been the completion of the installation of a 150 machine for mixing flour iron used in mills in 16 provinces by not exceeding 4 grams per 100 milli-grams supported by accurate, but it has an impact positive effect on raising the nutritional value of bread and the eradication of anemia, especially in the areas most in need.
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