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Zawya
04-07-2025
- Business
- Zawya
World food prices up slightly in June, UN's FAO says
PARIS - Global food commodity prices edged higher in June, supported by higher meat, dairy and vegetable oil prices, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in a basket of internationally traded food commodities, averaged 128.0 points in June, up 0.5% from May's figure. In a separate report, the FAO forecast global cereal production of 2.925 billion metric tons in 2025, up 0.5% from the previous estimate of 2.911 billion. (Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide. Editing by MarkPotter)
Zawya
25-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Egypt bought several hundred thousand tons of wheat for July/Aug delivery, sources say
Egypt's state grains buyer, one of the world's largest wheat importers, has purchased several hundred thousand metric tons of wheat in the past weeks for delivery in July and August, traders and sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The exact volume of the purchases was still unclear, but all sources referred to several hundred thousand tons. Egypt's wheat purchases had fallen sharply in the first half of this year after hefty shipments in the second half of 2024. One said the sale was for between 300,000 and 400,000 tons, another that a state-owned company was looking for 600,000 tons and a third that both state-owned and private buyers had sold a total of between 800,000 and 1 million tons. The sales would be of Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian origins, they said. Prices reported ranged from $250 to $258 per ton, cost and freight included. The state buyer told Reuters last week it was in advanced talks to secure hundreds of thousands of tons of wheat with suppliers from other EU origins, but had not named the countries. (Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide and Gus Trompiz in Paris, Mohamed Ezz in Cairo, Sarah El Safty in Dubai, Olga Popova in Moscow, Michael Hogan in Hamburg and Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv; Editing by Jan Harvey)
