Engineer Hazem El Ashmouni, Governor of Al-Sharkia, emphasized the importance of the wheat crop, which is considered one of the most important strategic crops in the governorate due to its nutritional value and its economic income, as it stimulates the food industry as being a raw material for many food industries and a major commodity in the domestic and foreign trade.

For his side, Eng. Abdel Karim Awadallah, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Supply, explained that 27,333 tons and 756 kilos of wheat were supplied yesterday, as the total amount of wheat that has been supplied to the storage sites within the governorate so far reached 206,791 tons and 960 kilos.