Several grinders in Alexandria have been stopped due to a shortage in imported wheat, which is mixed with local wheat at rates specified by the Supply Ministry. Suleiman al-Tayyeb, general director of the supply department in Alexandria, said the shortage of imported wheat is a nationwide problem. No bakeries stopped working. Some grinders in the Alexandria Flour Mills and Bakeries Company were stopped due to a malfunction and not due to a shortage in the shares, Tayyeb told Al-Masry Al-Youm. Mahmoud Youssef, deputy minister in Minya, said the bakeries are provided with sufficient stock, blaming the delay in disbursing wheat on the new measures to check the wheat sent to silos.

Source: Egypt Independent May 22, 2017 09:22 UTC