The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has taken steps to ensure the welfare of the Australian cattle remaining in Egyptian feedlots.

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With around nine to 10 million tonnes of foreign wheat purchased annually, Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world with a bill of almost $3 billion a year.

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Egypt may reach 65 to 70 percent self-sufficiency in wheat production this year because of an expected boost in the local harvest, the prime minister said on Saturday.

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Egypt may reach 65 to 70 percent self-sufficiency in wheat production this year because of an expected boost in the local harvest, the prime minister said on Saturday.

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Cairo’s Veterinary Medicine Directorate (VMD) has launched a number of search and seizure campaigns in a number of stores, restaurants, slaughterhouses, factories and open air markets.

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Egypt and Sudan want to launch joint farming, livestock and biofuel projects to help double bilateral trade, Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi said during his first visit to Khartoum.

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Life for Christians under the government of Mohammed Morsi in Egypt has become difficult.

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Egypt insists food supply secure as wheat imports dive .

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Coptic Christian churches in the United States say they are having to expand to cope with new arrivals, as priests in cities like Cairo and Alexandria talk of a new climate of fear and uncertainty.

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The criminal court of Beni Suef (115 km south of Cairo) has sentenced an entire family to prison for converting to Christianity.

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McDonald's Egypt signed a cooperation agreement with Helwan University to apply the Education Exchange program within the faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management that provide McDonald's employees the opportunity to complete their studies and obtain a Bachelors in restaurant operations and management.

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Whats all this talk about a grain shortage. Nomani Nomani, Vice Chairman of the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), gave the following breakdown of the purchases:

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The Coptic Orthodox Church threatened to withdraw its Constituent Assembly representatives Wednesday over concerns the new constitution will not represent minorities.

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According to a story in yesterday's Mideast Christian News, Muslims in the village of Basra in Alexandria, Egypt, surrounded the local Coptic church, St. Lyons, during divine liturgy, "demanding that visiting Copts leave the church before the completion of prayers, and threatening to burn down the church if their demand was not met."

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Egyptian scientists recommend moving poultry farms to the desert, away from residential areas, as a solution to Egypt's bird flu problem.

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Egypt, which has the highest number of deaths due to bird flu globally, is to produce its first vaccine to combat the virus, the National Research Centre (NRC) in Cairo has announced.

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Demand for camel meat is growing in Egypt as a strain of SAT2 foot and mouth disease sweeping across the nation has decimated cattle production and left the populace fearful of consuming beef.

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Nearly 100,000 head of cattle are believed to have been struck by foot-and-mouth disease in Egypt, where a major new outbreak is threatening the entire region, veterinary sources warned on Tuesday.

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Egyptian beef production is expected to fall in 2012, whilst imports will increase due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD), according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

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Major Egyptian Foot-And-Mouth Outbreak Threatens Region

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A new strain of Foot and Mouth Disease has been found in Egypt and is threatening to spread throughout northern Africa and the Middle East.

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Vice-chairman of the Federation of Poultry Producers, Mohamed al-Shafei, said the slight rise in poultry prices is a result of "increased demand for poultry after the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in various governorates, increased costs of poultry feed, and over LE8 million in losses incurred by the poultry sector after it failed to bring the bird flu and IB virus under control."

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Foot and mouth disease outbreak in Egypt with new virus strain.

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Nearly 100,000 head of cattle are believed to have been struck by foot-and-mouth disease in Egypt, where a major new outbreak is threatening the entire region, veterinary sources warned on Tuesday.

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After the spreading of the foot-and-mouth virus, which has already killed hundreds of animals across the country, fears have risen that meat prices would increase substantially.

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Veterinary units have ignored the problem and haven’t responded to the farmers’ complaints. If the Government doesn’t do something soon, things will only go from bad to worse, reports TheEgyptianGazette.

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The Chamber of Commerce’s Poultry Division announced a drop in local poultry production during the first quarter of this year by nearly 500,000 chickens a day, bringing the total daily chicken production to 1.1 million, as compared to 1.6 million last year. Daily consumption is 2.2 million chickens.

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Foot-and-mouth disease is sweeping through Egypt’s cattle herd among reports of veterinary inaction.

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Egypt’s October-to-January imports of corn gluten meal (CGM) reached 50 million metric tons, up 19 per cent compared to last year, a development Dr Hussein Soliman, US Grains Council director in Egypt, attributed to increased production in Egypt’s poultry, fish and dairy sectors.

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As last year's Arab spring has slowly roiled eastwards from Tunisia to the eastern Mediterranean, the two most concerned governments are the U.S. and Israel, that are watching their carefully constructed defense alignments crumble to the populist forces unleashed.

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An Egyptian Health Ministry official said that chemicals smuggled from Israel are infecting his country's poultry with dangerous viruses, Ynet has learned Monday.

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Final results on Saturday showed that Islamist parties won nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament in Egypt's first elections since the ouster of authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, according to election officials and political groups.

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In addition to this, there has been a severe reduction in the number of operating slaughterhouses, with some slaughterhouses now being used to produce eggs and breed turkeys.

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The poultry industry in Egypt is not only facing high prices of feed but the banning of the transportation of poultry from one governorate to another to prevent avian flu spreading has seen a severe reduction in the number of slaughterhouses.

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The poultry industry in Egypt is not only facing high prices of feed but the banning of the transportation of poultry from one governorate to another to prevent avian flu spreading has seen a severe reduction in the number of slaughterhouses.

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Egyptian security forces on Thursday raided the offices of 17 nongovernmental organizations, including three U.S.-based agencies, as part of a crackdown on foreign assistance that has drawn criticism from the West and threatened human rights groups and pro-democracy movements.

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Egyptian Interim Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri is close to deciding to re-nationalise six land reclamation companies (Al-Aqaria, Al-Aamma, Al-Bohera, Kom-Ombo, Al-Arabia, Rigoa), according to the Egyptian Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Reda Ismail, who spoke Tuesday on the issue.

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For decades Egyptian secularists have groused about the rise of Islamists and both have united in despising the military elite. But, after the revolution, the hottest and most novel political rivalry taking hold in the run-up to November 28 elections pits the old-school Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood against more fundamentalist Salafists and their political proxies.

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The Egyptian Poultry Science Association (EPSA) and World Poultry Science Association (WPSA) – Egypt branch have announced that the 3rd Mediterranean Poultry summit of WPSA (3rd MPS) and the 6th International Poultry Conference (6th IPC) will be held in one of the most beautiful resorts – Porto Marina – in Alexandria, Egypt, on 26 to 29 March 2012.

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Egypt currently has a total electricity capacity of about 23,500 megawatts, which the government hopes to increase to 58,000 megawatts by 2027.

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The Irish Farmers Journal has learned that the Egyptian market is set to re-open for Irish beef and live cattle. The Department of Agriculture has confirmed that negotiations on the necessary health certifications are ongoing following a visit by an Egyptian veterinary delegation to Ireland two weeks ago.

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The 3rd Mediterranean Poultry Summit of WPSA and the 6th International Poultry Conference will be held in Alexandria on 26 to 29 March 2012.

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The increase in food prices accelerated ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, which starts on 1 August 1, consumers in Cairo complained to The Egyptian Gazette at the weekend.

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Italian based Giordano Poultry Plast SpA received the ISO 9001 certification for its sister-company Eddydypt Giordano Poultry in Egypt.

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Egyptian authorities detained a former agriculture minister for 15 days on Tuesday to investigate allegations that he had allowed the importation of cancer-causing pesticides, judicial sources said. They said Youssef Wali, agriculture minister from 1982 to 2004, was also being investigated over allegations that he had wasted 200 million Egyptian pounds of state funds by selling land to businessman Hussein Salem for less than the market price.

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INVESTIGATIONS are ongoing to identify the source of the E coli outbreak in Egypt said that its tests on locally produced fenugreek seeds had proven negative for any presence of the deadly bacteria. The tests on random samples from the warehouses of Organic Green Co followed the EU decision to temporarily ban the import of certain types of Egyptian seeds.

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Applebee’s Services Inc. has signed a franchise deal with Ameco Foods for the development of 10 new Applebee’s restaurants in Egypt over 10 years, Applebee’s parent DineEquity said.A Cairo restaurant is slated to open by July 2012.

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Hundreds of poultry shop owners protested outside the TV Building near the Nile Corniche in Cairo on Friday (24 June), demanding the Government of Essam Sharaf rescind a 2010 law barring trade and transport of live birds to help prevent the spread of the bird flu virus.

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The Ministry of Health of Egypt has notified WHO of a new case of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus.

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The Ministry of Health of Egypt has announced a new confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus.

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Egypt has been making huge efforts to recover its poultry industry from the ravages of bird flu.

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The Egyptian Ministry of Justice ordered on Thursday to confiscate former Agriculture Minister Yousef Wali's fixed and liquidated assets, the state news agency MENA reported.

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The Ministry of Health of Egypt has announced four new confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus.

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Australian wool will have a third main destination for processing by the end of this year.

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The recent demonstrations in Egypt have rocked world markets and sent investors scrambling for the exits. It's not without reason. A possible revolution in the most populous and influential nation in the Arab world shouldn't be taken lightly given the possibility of an anti-Western government coming to power in Cairo.

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EGYPT's state trading giant has said that emergency purchases will not be needed in response to protests and unrest in the country, but many see higher buying in the longer-term.

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Egypt, which is being rocked by riots following the successful people's coup in Tunisia, is a major, and growing, dairy importer.

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If you insist on joining the emerging market party at this stage of the agflation blow-off, avoid countries with an accelerating gap between rich and poor. Cairo’s EGX stock index has dropped 20pc in nine trading sessions.

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The meeting will be headed by Health Minister Hatem El-Gabali and will include the Agriculture Minister El-Sayed Amin Abaza, Environment Minister Maged George, Local Development Minister Abdel Salam Mahgoub, and several bird flu experts.

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Rising food prices, which triggered the downfall of the Tunisian regime and rioting in Algeria, threaten further trouble across the Middle East and North Africa, a region heavily dependent on food imports.

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