Completing the national silo project and developing supply outlets
The Ministry of Supply will witness a busy agenda during the year 2025 to complete a number of projects and initiatives that it launched to provide food security for citizens, in implementation of the directives of the political leadership on the necessity of working to confront rising prices and secure strategic goods.
“Rosal Youssef” monitors; The most prominent files that the Ministry of Supply seeks to complete during the coming period, the most important of which is continuing to provide subsidized local bread on ration cards at approximately 250 to 270 million loaves/day to a number of about (69.5) million citizens benefiting from the disbursement of subsidized bread at a fixed price of 20 piasters per loaf. With an annual total of 94.9 billion loaves of bread, with a total support for bread estimated at about 98 billion pounds, providing more than 30 A basic commodity on ration cards for about (61.5) million beneficiaries of the disbursement of food supplies, with a total support for food supplies estimated at about 36 billion pounds during the year 2024, with a total support of more than 134 billion pounds in the 2024/2025 budget for bread and food supplies together.
The Ministry also seeks to provide free goods in fixed and mobile outlets, which amount to 40,000 outlets (Supply shops – my association’s outlets – consumer complexes – mobile cars) and the provision and sale of meat in consumer complexes at competitive prices throughout the year, especially during the holidays and seasons, as well as the sustainability of organizing official seasonal exhibitions (Welcome schools – Welcome Ramadan – Eid al-Fitr – Eid Al-Adha) to provide the needs of citizens at reasonable prices to ease the burden on citizens and to confront any attempts to monopolize and manipulate prices during the seasons. And holidays.
During the new year, the Ministry is keen to complete development and community initiatives, as the Ministry opened 259 new outlets within the My Association project, bringing the total number of outlets to 8,474 outlets, which provided more than 25,000 direct job opportunities and developed 44 branches of Consumer complexes, bringing the total to 359 developed branches, to provide goods at competitive prices.
The Ministry continues to complete the “Today’s Market” initiative. The one» It has been implemented in 15 governorates, with a number of 24 markets so far, which has contributed to reducing trading circles and making goods available directly to citizens, and it is being circulated at all levels of the governorates of the Republic.
Under the directives of the permanent political leadership of the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade, the Ministry By providing a safe and sustainable strategic reserve of basic and strategic commodities for a period of no less than 6 months through contracts carried out by the General Authority for Supply Commodities and the Holding Company. For the food industries to ensure the provision and availability of goods and services to those entitled to support for the most vulnerable groups, achieving food security, continuing the flow of supplies for subsidized bread and basic commodities, and managing the stock of strategic goods using modern methods that depend on actual and future needs and predicting crises to avoid seasonal bottlenecks.
The general average level of sufficiency for all basic commodities reached “wheat – rationed sugar – rationed oil – Sudanese live meat – meat Frozen – frozen poultry – pasta» Local supplies for about 6 months.
The volume of wheat supply in the 2024 season reached about 3.43 million tons. Diversifying the source of wheat purchases to reduce the risk of difficulty or inability to manage in light of the geopolitical variables surrounding the region, as the number of establishments listed in the General Authority for Supply Commodities reached (22) establishments accredited by the Egyptian Agricultural Quarantine.
The completion of the national project comes. Silos are at the top of the Ministry’s concerns, as the Ministry adopted an expansion plan to increase storage capacities and move to storage activity in the field of grains in Egypt, a distinguished cultural shift to preserve stock. Reaching the lowest possible loss rate and ensuring that the country maintains a safe strategic reserve of wheat that is not exposed to spoilage factors, thus increasing the storage capacity to approximately (6) million tons instead of (3.4) million tons, maintaining the quality of the stock and reducing the percentage of loss and spoilage.
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