date:Jul 12, 2013
Egypt had halted its purchases of international wheat since February - its longest absence from the market in years - until the eve of Mursi's overthrow, when the state grain buying agency, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), bought wheat under Ouda's instruction.
In spite of all the political differences between the parties, the international price of wheat was very nice, we bought about 180,000 metric tons of wheat, Ouda said.
Mamdouh Abdel Fattah, vice chairman of GASC, w