Friday 26/December/2025 – 06:05 PM
Major General Staff Pilot Ali El-Deeb, a strategic expert, revealed that Egypt has begun taking serious steps towards achieving Self-sufficiency of wheat, within the framework of the state’s strategy to enhance food security and reduce dependence on imports.
Egypt is taking serious steps to achieve self-sufficiency in wheat
El-Deeb said, in exclusive statements to Cairo 24, that the recent period witnessed strong competition between a Chinese company and a Polish company to establish a local factory to manufacture wheat storage silos instead of importing them from abroad.
He added that the Egyptian government agreed to establish the Firm Egypt Company in partnership with the Polish company FEERUM and the Egyptian Samcrete Company, within the framework of a partnership contract between the Egyptian private sector and the Polish company to establish a factory specialized in manufacturing silos.
It is likely that the factory will be established within the Suez Canal Economic Zone, with the implementation period ranging between one and two years.
The strategic expert explained that the current capacity of wheat silos in Egypt is about 5 million tons, while the state needs to increase this capacity to reach about 20 million tons, meaning that Egypt is in dire need of establishing a number of silos to add a storage capacity of up to 15 million tons, stressing the state’s keenness to eliminate the storage of wheat in the dirt barns, as the percentage of loss therein reaches (15.20%) and this step represents the beginning of the actual move towards achieving self-sufficiency in wheat.
Al-Deeb pointed out that a plot of land belonging to the Misr Future Authority was offered near the port of Abu Qir to establish storage silos with a capacity of up to 1,500,000 tons. He pointed out that new silos belonging to the Misr Future Authority are scheduled to be opened in the Administrative Capital, with a storage capacity estimated at about 100,000 tons, approximately during next April, with the next harvest season.
