CAIRO- Egypt has enough rice for the local market to last until November 2021, the head of the rice division at Egypt's grain industry chamber said on Sunday.

The country also expects to receive nearly 3 million tonnes of white rice during the new harvest season, which starts next September, the state news agency MENA quoted Ragab Shehata as saying. The new harvest would help boost the country's strategic stocks of rice for long periods, he added.

The grains industry chamber is part of the Egypt's industry union.

(Reporting by Omar Fahmy; Writing by Mahmoud Mourad; Editing by Alex Richardson) ((mahmoud.mourad@thomsonreuters.com;))