CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) - With steaming plates of rice and freshly sliced apples on the side, a group of Cairo-based food scientists work in their lab to decide whether the foreign grains will suit ...

ABU DHABI/CAIRO, March 19 (Reuters) - Smugglers in the Middle East are enjoying an unlikely moneyspinner - illegal medium grain rice. Sign up here. Shoppers across the Gulf, mostly unaware of the ...

In early February, the Egyptian Customs Authority renewed its ban on rice exports, which has been in place for over eight years per the given rationale that it will help conserve the country’s scarce ...

Mauritania plans to partner with Egypt to enhance cereal productivity, including rice, wheat, and maize. Talks include establishing an Egyptian Agricultural Research Center branch in Nouakchott as a ...

07 December 2011 CAIRO: Egyptian Minister of Social Justice and Solidarity Goda Abdel Khalek met Thai Ambassador to Egypt Chalit Manityakul on Tuesday. Khalek praised unbreakable relations between ...

MANILA, Philippines — Rice importers will have the leverage to delay purchases and even buy at a bargain once the country’s rice import ban is lifted as global prices remain soft due to a supply glut, ...