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Improved grain storage mitigates food crisis
Published: 04/11/2024
Building
resilience requires action across the food production chain, and Egypt’s
government has taken a multi-pronged approach. One of the foundational elements
of this strategy is to improve and expand the capacity of grain storage.
The World
Bank’s Emergency Food Security and Resilience Support Project is part of these
efforts to expand and renovate Egypt’s food silos. The Assiut food silo in the
Upper Egypt governorate is one of the first to be expanded under the project,
which involves rehabilitating and expanding seven silos and building two new
ones. At the Assiut silo, storage will be expanded from the current level of 60
000 to 100 000 tonnes of grain annually. – World Bank