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;))