Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has directed the government to ensure the continuous availability of the country’s strategic reserves of basic goods and to keep monitoring the market prices of such goods in order to meet the needs of citizens.
The directives to this effect came in the course of a meeting that President Sisi called on Sunday with Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli, Home Trade and Supply Minister Ali Moselhi, Agriculture Minister el-Sayed el-Quseir and the Director-General of the Armed Forces National Service Authority Maj. Gen. Walid Abu El-Magd, Presidency Spokesman Bassam Radi said.
The meeting was devoted to reviewing the status of strategic food commodities and monitoring their availability in markets nationwide, Spokesman Radi said.
In the directives he gave during the meeting, President Sisi emphasized that the aim of ensuring the continuous availability of the country’s basic food commodities and following up their market prices of such commodities is to meet the needs of citizens in sufficient quantities and at affordable prices, Spokesman Radi said.
The presidential directives followed presentations that participants in the meeting gave on the situation of the state’s strategic reserves of basic food commodities, especially including wheat, rice, sugar, oils, meat, poultry and fish.
The presentations affirmed that the provision of all such goods and commodities is problem-free in view of the state’s advance planning to ensure the continuity of strategic reserves for a period of not less than six months, the spokesman said.
The state’s efforts to increase the production of fertilizers were also reviewed in those presentations in light of the role of fertilizers as influential inputs for agricultural production and food security, spokesman Radi said, adding that reference was made in this respect to the keenness of the state on maximizing the availability of agricultural production requirements.
Source: The Egyptian Gazette
