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CAIRO- Egypt has set a local wheat procurement price of 700 Egyptian pounds ($44.59) per ardeb (150 kg) before the harvest starts next month, the cabinet said in a statement on Thursday.
Egypt's Supply Minister Ali Moselhy had said the government aimed to procure around 3.6 million tonnes of local wheat from the harvest.
($1 = 15.7000 Egyptian pounds)
(Reporting by Moamen Saeed Attallah; Writing by Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Edmund Blair) ((Nadine.Awadalla@thomsonreuters.com;))