Back to Home Page of CD3WD Project or Back to list of CD3WD Publications

POST HARVEST SYSTEM OF CEREAL GRAINS IN EGYPT

Prepared by

Prof. Dr. Faris El-Lakwah, Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture Moshtohor
Zagazig University
Cairo, March 1995

Copyright

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is hereby granted without fee and without a formal request provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and full citation on the first page. Copyright for components of this work owned by others than FAO must be honoured. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or fee.

Request permission to publish from:

The Chief Editor,
FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla,
00100 Rome, Italy,
e-mail:
copyright@fao.org


Contents

Introduction
National Production
National Policy and Strategy
Policy of Cereal Grains
Post Harvest Systems of Cereals in Egypt
The Public Sector
Public Sector Handling and Storage Infrastructure
The Private Sector
Grain Storage on Farm Level
Magnitude of Losses
Harvest
Transport of Crops
Threshing
Drying
Environmental Impact
Scientific Research
Stored Products Pests
Import of Grain
Exports
Cereal Grain Marketing System
Restrictions on Crop Movement and Marketing
Marketing Services
Quality of Cereal Grains
Government Policy and Action for Future Improvement in Post Production Operation

Annex:

Tables 1 - 8

Marketing Channels for Wheat, Rice and Maize
References