By Sarah El Safty
CAIRO, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Egypt relied more heavily on
Russian wheat imports last year despite a sharp drop in its
imports of the grain and moves to diversify the sources of its
wheat purchases, data seen by Reuters shows.
Though Egypt’s wheat imports from Russia fell by 6.7% in
2022, Russia’s share, including purchases by Egypt’s state
grains authority and the private sector, rose to 57% from 50% in
2021.
That partly…


