Food security is of prime concern for both countries. When Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted in April last year that Egypt had agreed to buy wheat from India, it was not an insignificant geo-political move. Goyal said Egypt had allowed the imports following personal intervention from top officials and India wanted to become a regular supplier of good quality wheat to the African nation. While India’s share in Egypt’s wheat import is small (1 million tonnes of the 11-12 million tonnes Egypt imports) it has the potential of developing a new market for India.
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