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CAIRO, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Egypt's strategic wheat reserves are sufficient to last until the beginning of April, the country's Supply Minister Mohamed Ali Meselhy said in a cabinet statement late on Wednesday.
The new reserve figure was released after Egypt's state-owned General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) bought 360,000 tonnes of Russian, Argentine and Romanian wheat on Tuesday in a tender.
Meselhy said the government had bought a total of 840,000 tonnes of wheat. Egypt is the world's biggest importer of wheat.
(Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; editing by David Clarke) ((ahmed.aboulenein@thomsonreuters.com; +20 2 2394 8097; Reuters Messaging: ahmed.aboulenein.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
The new reserve figure was released after Egypt's state-owned General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) bought 360,000 tonnes of Russian, Argentine and Romanian wheat on Tuesday in a tender.
Meselhy said the government had bought a total of 840,000 tonnes of wheat. Egypt is the world's biggest importer of wheat.
(Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; editing by David Clarke) ((ahmed.aboulenein@thomsonreuters.com; +20 2 2394 8097; Reuters Messaging: ahmed.aboulenein.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
