Egypt: Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic, Egypt’s Wheat and Corn Imports Hold Steady – Grain and Feed Update 2020

September 10, 2020 
Attaché Reports (GAIN)

Commodities 

Grain and Feed, Corn, Rice, Wheat

Locations 

Africa and Middle East, Egypt

FAS Cairo (Post) forecasts Egypt’s wheat production in marketing year (MY) 2020/2021 (July-June) to reach 8.9 million metric tons (MMT), up by almost 1.5 percent compared to 8.77 MMT in marketing year 2019/20. FAS Cairo forecasts Egypt’s wheat imports in MY 2020/21 (July-June) at 12.9 MMT, up by 1.57 percent from MY 2019/20 Post’s import estimate figure of 12.7 MMT. FAS Cairo forecasts Egypt’s corn imports in MY 2020/21 (Oct – Sept) at 11 MMT, up 4.76 percent from Post’s MY 2019/20 estimate of 10.5 million metric tons. FAS Cairo forecasts Egypt’s rice imports in MY 2020/21 at 200,000 MT.

Egypt: Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic, Egypt’s Wheat and Corn Imports Hold Steady – Grain and Feed Update 2020