According to Egypt's Agricultural Research Center (ARC), approximately 14 percent of the country's wheat production is lost annually. It also said that Egypt will not be able to expand grain-growing areas and can only reach self-sufficiency through improved crop yields.

  News Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS After several years of steadily declining tourist arrivals, it seems that Egypt may be seeing an uptick in the last quarter of 2014. Visitors in September were up by close to 200 percent over 2013, and December pre-bookings are said to be very strong. This is a tremendous boost for the tourism sector, but is equally as important to the poultry industry as tourists in the past have always been major consumers of loc...