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BloombergBusiness wrote an article this week titled Pigeons Grow Fat in Egypt as Poor Storage Means Wasted Wheat, exploring the inefficiencies bedeviling food systems in the Middle East and North Africa. and featuring an interview with Blumberg Grain's David Blumberg. An excerpt follows:

As much as half of the wheat the state buys from its farmers is lost each year to pigeons, rodents and thieves scavenging national stockpiles that are often just stacked in rough jute bags open to the elements, said David Blumberg, whose U.S. company is working with the government to modernize and build the Middle East's largest grain-storage network.

"If you ever passed by a landfill and saw all the birds circling above, that's kind of the situation," said Blumberg, chief executive officer of Blumberg Grain, Middle East & Africa, referring to the facilities he's working on replacing. "There is no protective covering."

Wasted grain is a big problem for Egypt, where rising food prices intensified unrest that led to the overthrow of the government during Arab Spring protests in 2011. The country is the world's biggest wheat importer and spends billions of dollars on grain each year for a subsidized bread program to ensure its people can afford food.

The government buys about 40 percent of the country's wheat production each year, but waste isn't limited to the domestic crop. Poor infrastructure, port backlogs and aging storage sites mean a third of imported supply is also lost, said Gilles Mettetal, director of agribusiness at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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Blumberg Grain was featured in an article from The Hindu BusinessLine today, Warehousing, food storage services companies keen on India, in which Anshuman Magazine, CMD of CBRE South Asia, shares insights into the market. An excerpt follows:

"Few companies have already expressed interest. Recently, companies like Blumberg Grain, a US-based warehousing solutions provider, have shown interest to establish their manufacturing base and warehousing facilities," he added.

The entry of such brands may help the existing technological know-how in the field, and improve them to global standards, thus creating more employment opportunities.

Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru are likely to remain major hubs for retail distribution centres; Pune and Chennai are likely to see healthy demand for industrial warehousing.

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Blumberg Grain was featured in an article in The Tribune in India this week as Sanjeev Sharma interviewed David Blumberg CEO, Blumberg Grain. An excerpt from the article follows:

Q: What are your plans for Punjab?
A: Senior representatives of the company are visiting Punjab as well as several other states in the country, to explore propositions for establishing the manufacturing plant and export hub for Asia. The company intends to select a location for the manufacturing hub by the end of summer. We are also in discussion with potential distribution partners and customers in the state.

Q: What are the initiatives for making India an export hub?
A: We are looking forward to making India our hub for Asia to enhance food security infrastructure in both the grain and perishable value chains throughout the region. We are looking to establish a manufacturing plant and export hub in India. The Blumberg Grain Hub in India will manufacture components for scientific warehouses. Blumberg Grain will export its systems, made in India, throughout Asia.

Q: How does it synchronise with Make in India?
A: Blumberg Grain aims to make India a home country in the greater region — that is the vision of our chairman, Philip Blumberg. The Blumberg Grain manufacturing facility alone would generate over 1,000 local jobs and an estimated economic impact of $1 billion in the first year of operation in the state in which it is set up. In addition, we will source raw materials from India and help create a knowledge base and supply chain that will have a multiplier effect on local economies.

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Blumberg Grain was featured in a ZAYWA article this week titled Blumberg Grain unveils the first Aggregation Center of the Shouna Development Project in Egypt, an initiative supported by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s Viva Egypt Fund. An excerpt follows:

Minister of Supply, Dr Khaled Hanafy commented, “This is a great achievement for the Egyptians, we are now moving towards a future with improved infrastructure which supports President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s vision to build a sustainable economy, which is open, inclusive, and transparent. Blumberg Grain has delivered a system that will transform our nation’s grain infrastructure and we look forward to the system being fully complete and integrated.”

The Shouna Development Project brings to Egypt the latest food security technology that will allow for screening, drying, cleaning, grading, and bagging of wheat. This will enable processing capacity of 3.7 million metric tons of wheat per year, and create 750,000 metric tons of new static storage capacity, in turn revolutionizing the local wheat harvest value chain in Egypt. A second phase of the project would see an additional 207 Shouna modernized, bringing the total up to 300 sites.

David Blumberg, Chief Executive Officer of Blumberg Grain, Middle East and Africa said, “Blumberg Grain is helping advance the Egyptian Economic Development Strategy Towards 2030, which seeks to improve infrastructure, build a modern and democratic society and create jobs. We want to thank President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Ministry of Supply, and the Army Engineering Authority who have been the driving force of this project, assisting in turning concept into reality.”

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David Blumberg, Chief Executive Officer of Blumberg Grain – West Africa, was interviewed this month in Business Today Egypt in an article titled Blumberg Grain Provides Solutions to Egypt's Grain Spoiling Problem. An excerpt follows:

Egypt has a major issue with grain spoiling. Some 40% of grain spoils every year, why?
Egypt regularly faces post-harvest wheat losses of approximately 40% due to spoilage occurring in the traditional, open-air storage facilities currently being used, commonly known as Shouna. This loss is due to depletion by pests, pilferage, rot and inclement weather.

What is the solution that Blumberg Grain provide to this problem? And how much can it reduce the percentage of spoiled grain?
The Shouna Development Project is a unique collaboration between the Ministry of Supply, Ministry of Defense and Blumberg Grain. The first phase of the project will revamp 93 Shouna (of 164 total planned) located across the country with modernized food security warehouses, known as Blumberg Grain Aggregation Centers.

This first phase of the project will enable primary processing of 3. 7 million metric tons of wheat per year across a platform of 3.6 million square feet of storage space.

The project will create one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated integrated food security systems for grain storage.

The Blumberg Grain Aggregation Centers, when properly implemented, can reduce postharvest losses down to 5% or less. The system will support the government in recovering crops lost to post harvest losses, saving Egypt up to an estimated USD 200 million annually.

To read the full interview, click here. For more news and information, visit Blumberg Partners.

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Blumberg Grain was featured in an Ahram Online article titled Egypt will launch new wheat storage system next week. An excerpt follows:

Egypt will launch a new grain storage system next week, in the hope of reducing by a quarter the amount of wheat wasted annually, Supply Minister Khaled Hanafy announced on Tuesday.

The government signed an agreement with Blumberg Grain in December to replace 93 local wheat barns with food security technology and systems.

The new storage system will save Egypt an estimated LE1 billion annually, the US-based global food security company said.

The Army Engineering Authority, Egyptian Holding Company for Silos and Storage and the supply ministry are collaborating with Blumberg Grain to complete the project by the next harvest season in April.

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Blumberg Grain was featured in an article from The Guardian total titled "Bread rationing and smartcards: Egypt takes radical steps to tackle food waste". An excerpt follows:

In order to achieve this Hanafi is currently finalising an £18m nationwide network of state-of-the-art grain storage facilities to keep government-purchased wheat. The first 105 of these shounas will open in April. "When we collect the wheat, we put it in open-air shounas, but this creates waste and a dramatic loss in quality," he says, pointing to birds, humidity, air pollution and rodents as the main problem areas. These new storage facilities are temperature-controlled, as well as being equipped with primary processing capacity to screen, clean, dry and bag wheat as well as other grain products.

There's even a command centre in Cairo, containing a software inventory management system and camera surveillance technology. David Blumberg of Blumberg Grain, the US specialist storage firm contracted to implement the project, claims the new system could save Egypt up to £130m per year. "The government can get a real-time view of the levels of inventory that they have across the entire shouna system," says Blumberg.

Blumberg has installed similar storage infrastructure in Senegal, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and is currently in discussions with various state governments in India to implement storage facilities for rice, onion and potatoes, as well as wheat.

Post-harvest waste has become a high-profile issue in recent years and governments are increasingly keen to find ways to cut food waste at every level. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, the estimated food that is lost after harvesting could feed 48 million people and exceeds the total food aid to the region.

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Blumberg Grain was featured in a Miami Today article titled "Gables firm, Egypt partner for grain security" that looks into the company's progress in Africa and continued development of grain storage facilities to reduce post-harvest loss. An excerpt follows:

The company, which signed a contract with the Egyptian government late last year, is currently developing 93 wheat storage facilities across Egypt and expects the first few to be completed by the end of April, said David Blumberg, CEO of Blumberg Grain-West Africa.

He told Miami Today the facilities will process 3.7 million tons of wheat annually and store 750,000 tons, saving Egypt about $200 million a year.

"Post-harvest wheat loss in emerging markets is the primary problem for governments to solve," Mr. Blumberg said. "The loss, between harvest and first sale, is about 50% and due mainly to the lack of storage containers."

That's the ultimate goal of the Blumberg Grain project: to support the Egyptian government in recovering crops lost to post-harvest fatality.

Egypt is the world's largest importer of wheat and Africa's largest producer. However, there are numerous threats to grain in Egypt and other emerging countries, including pest attacks, rot, and theft – or what is referred to in the industry as "leakage." This leakage is often distributed to thieves' friends and family who sell the wheat on the black market.

Currently, Mr. Blumberg said, Egypt's wheat is stored in open-air storage facilities called shounas. He explained the wheat is received from farmers in bags and then stacked in piles, thus exposed to the sun and elements.

"There's a high likelihood that it will go bad due to the weather," Mr. Blumberg said. "The Egyptian pigeon is the worst pest and responsible for about 20% of the loss."

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Blumberg Grain was featured in a CovAfrica article this week titled Egypt and Blumberg Grain Launch World's Largest Integrated Food Storage System, heralding the forthcoming construction of the world's largest integrated food storage system for grain. Launching this April, the 93 sophisticated wheat storage facilities across Egypt that will process 3.7 million tons annually and store 750,000 tons of wheat, saving Egypt approximately $200 million annually, in addition to creating jobs within Egypt's agricultural center. An excerpt from the article follows:

Egypt is the world's largest importer of wheat, as well as Africa's largest wheat producer. The country is intensely vulnerable to fluctuating international food prices, yet it commonly endures post-harvest grain losses of over 40% due to spoilage occurring in traditional, open-air "shouna" storage facilities. Blumberg specializes in the development of cost-effective, efficient storage systems that aim to reduce post-harvest losses to 5% or less. The new storage network will increase profitability and food security by storing, cleaning, and bagging grain products in climate-controlled, secure facilities throughout Egypt.

Following the political unrest that consumed Egypt in 2011, addressing Egypt's food security concerns through infrastructure development proved especially challenging. However, under the leadership of President Abdel Fattah Sisi and the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade, infrastructure investment has become an increasing priority, and the government is open to investment partnerships. Under Blumberg's $28 million contract with the Egyptian government, the Egyptian army will build at least 93 wheat storage facilities using Blumberg technology; the contract provides for project expenditures of up to $56 million, and the modernization of up to 164 shounas in total.

In addition to revamping Egypt's wheat storage system, Blumberg Grain also plans to build logistics centers for perishable produce across Egypt that will leverage cutting-edge technology to maximize the longevity of perishable produce. Lastly, the company plans to build a $250 million manufacturing plant and export hub that will produce food security technology and equipment for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. While competition for this contract has yet to conclude, the company has stated that Egypt is well-positioned to gain the manufacturing plant and related processing and packing facilities. The plant will create approximately 1,000 new jobs; KPMG estimates that the initiative will have a $1 billion economic impact during its first year, and a $7 billion impact over a five year period.

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Blumberg Grain Visits India With An Eye Towards Adding Value to the Country's Ongoing Food Security Initiatives

Blumberg Grain senior executives are arriving in India this week for meetings on food security needs in the public and private sectors.
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The company will also be participating in official business and industry events on January 26th held in honor of visiting U.S. President Barack Obama, and hosted by the U.S.-India Business Council, an arm of the US Chamber of Commerce.

Chairman and CEO, Philip Blumberg, accompanied by senior executives of the US based agribusiness company, will also be evaluating opportunities in India for partnering with Indian companies as well as investing in food processing, manufacturing, and opportunities to establish food security operations in India to reduce post harvest losses, currently estimated at over 50%, to under 5% utilizing Blumberg Grain's state of the art technology and storage systems.

Blumberg Grain's food security technologies and solutions are increasingly taking hold among emerging agricultural economies. The Company was recently selected to develop Egypt's new grain storage infrastructure, which comprises 93 sites across Egypt, and enables primary processing of 3.7 million metric tons of wheat per year across a platform of 3.6 million square feet of storage space. That project will be one of the world's largest integrated food security systems for grain storage. Blumberg is also providing cold chain storage for produce and perishable storage for the Nigerian government, which is anticipated to ultimately comprise the largest cold chain infrastructure on the continent.

Philip Blumberg Chairman and CEO, commented, "Though we have considered investments in India previously, the determination of the Modi Administration to address food security and improve agriculture, combined with President Modi's 'Make in India' initiative, is very aligned with our objectives. We will be evaluating opportunities to manufacture our food security systems and storage in India for domestic use and for export. We are looking forward to meetings with government officials as well as major Indian companies regarding joint-venture/partnership to enter the India market. At the end of the day, we believe that India provides numerous win-win opportunities for our company, Indian agriculture and the Indian people as a whole."

About Blumberg Grain
Blumberg Grain is a leading global food security company, providing harvest protection systems and technology. Blumberg Grain's fully integrated crop and food security systems can reduce post-harvest losses of grain, produce, and other perishables to 5% or less. Blumberg Grain works with private companies and countries to modernize agricultural value chains, increase the quality and marketable output of their harvests, enable efficient market timing, and significantly boost exports of agriculture products. For more information, please visit www.blumberggrain.com.

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David Blumberg was interview by Africa Agribusiness, detailing the customer history, advancements and current position in the agricultural health and progress in Africa. As another Blumberg Grain Warehouse system is built, Mr. Blumberg spoke with Dave Ramaswamy; an excerpt of the interview follows:

AAM: Do your systems run on a variety of power inputs? Grid power is not always available or reliable, with voltage fluctuations, in these markets.

Blumberg: Good point. When designing our systems, we told our R&D team that they should plan for poor infrastructure as well as harsh climates. The Applied Engineering division designed our units so that a 600-square-meter facility (with 1500 metric tons of storage) can pack up into just one 40-foot cargo container. Our engineers designed our units for fast installation – as little as three days. They designed them for flexible use. Our units are modular when it comes to adding capacity and are upgradable when it comes to adding our technology options.

Speaking to your point about energy – it was clear that the units would have to be able to handle different kinds of energy supply. So we offer solar power, wind power, etc. as a supplementary power source for these systems. Our Grain Vault can run completely on solar power.

AAM: Is it solar PV? How exactly does it work? How do you handle power failure and redundancy?

Blumberg: That's correct, Solar PV on top of the warehouse roof. You can get quite a bit of power out of those panels. What we've done is leverage technologies on the inside of our warehouse that are energy-efficient. The only issue is the cold storage component for which the power needs are quite high. Our cold storage could run on 100 percent solar power, but it then becomes inefficient from an economic perspective.

For our refrigerated storage, what we suggest to our clients is to locate these close to the existing grid. If that isn't possible, we need to have generators in place to run the system. Even if we're on the grid, we have the option to hook into different independent power solutions.

Our video on the technology describes this flexibility and some other features of our systems: http://www.blumberggrain.com/video/

AAM: What is the secret of your success in these demanding markets?

Blumberg: That is because of two things: first, the success that we have realized in the market vis-à-vis the application of our product; and second, for some reason, there haven't been companies that emerged to play a role in this storage space in these emerging markets.

When you look at these developing countries, our competition is, for the most part, local concrete contractors. These contractors put up a concrete warehouse that has only a tangential application to food security. The warehouse offers no specialized ancillary options or specialized components. They don't provide the safety and security needed to keep the crop preserved in-condition. So you continue to see high post-harvest loss rates.

We designed our warehouses with coatings and primers that reflect about 65 percent of the sun's heat. We have seals that create foam closures between each panel. This means you don't have leakage and you don't have water coming into the facility. We've designed our warehouse to be basic nuts-and-bolts assembly, so any skilled labor can put it up fast. So there are no problematic issues with construction, and we can be sure the facility works as intended.

In agriculture, the harvest season dictates the timeline for construction projects. If you miss the harvest season deadline, you lose that year's benefit. It is critical to be fast and timely. We hold the record in the industry for the ability to get 600 square meters of covered storage up, in three days.

To read the full interview, click here. For more news and information visit Blumberg Capital Partners.

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Blumberg Grian was featured in a Leadership article this week titled "Agriculture Will Lead Nigeria’s Economy In 2015" in which Olukayode Oyeleye examines the current growth in the nation's economy, and Blumberg's contribution to it. An excerpt follows:

One of the things that hallmarked the 2014 was that several meetings were held, with the Honourable Minister, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, personally presiding, to steer the direction and purposes, which ensured quick decision-making and FMARD commitments, to the benefit of the private sector. The A & I unit enhanced the credibility of the FMARD among private sector as a superior resource in agribusiness development.

Foreign companies saw through the rising profile and prospects of agricultural sector and came calling. One of them is Blumberg Grain; its total investment is estimated at about US $250 million. The project is on fast track implementation timeframe. The contribution of the unit to the first-ever piloting of an electronic warehouse receipt system with government assets, through a public private partnership was notable. The ministry has proved that so much could be done in the right direction to move the sector forward, with the private sector at the forefront. In Kebbi State, farmers experienced firsthand keys to extension of onion shelf life, including varieties, harvesting method, storage conditions (temperature and humidity control) and packaging.

To read the full article, click here. For more news and information visit Blumberg Capital Partners.

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A new article from Clement Ejiofor published by NAIJ titled "Why GEJ Is Sure That Nigeria Is ready For Oil Crisis" relays comments made by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the economy, agricultural transformation agenda, and Blumberg Grain's investment in the country's continued growth. An excerpt follows:

A lot of investment projects are realising within the modernization.

For example, in 2012 Blumberg Grain, the Global food giant invested $250 million in a large-scale food storage facilities for Nigeria’s agricultural sector creating up to 1,000 jobs.

See what David Blumberg, CEO, Blumberg Grain – West Africa thinks of Nigerian agriculture :

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Blumberg Grain was featured this month in a Leadership Newspaper article titled Food Security Receives A Boost, As FG Launches Silo Complex, which examines cases of food insecurity due largely to storage inadequacies, in quality or quantity, leading to a substantial post-harvest wastage. During the signing of a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) between the ministry and the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) on the concession of the silos, Dr. Adesina hinted that the Nigerian ministry was going to embark on concessioning and leasing of silos in conjunction with ICRC, World Bank and private stakeholders so as to effectively involve the private sector in the utilization of the excess storage space. An excerpt of the article follows:

The MoC, according to the minister, was the continuation of the process of synergy with the private sector to manage and operate silo complexes across the country. The signing of the MoC would bring the capacity utilization of the silos, which is currently less than 10 per cent, to about 100 per cent after the concession. Between the ministry and the ICRC, the roles and responsibilities of each party to the MoC towards the actualization of the proposed concession exercise would be spelt out.

The department is also collaborating with African Exchange Holdings (AFEX) Ltd. for the commencement of the pilot electronic Warehouse Receipt system in seven locations in Nigeria. The Blumberg Food safety and Security Vaults (Warehouses) are also being introduced in nine states of the federation to address post-harvest losses of fruits/vegetables, roots and tubers.

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CNBC “I want to show you this one thing: How big is this show? You're seeing the Egyptian Minister of Supply who has come to Iowa to further a multi-billion dollar deal to buy secure storage bins from Blumberg Grain for their grain. Egypt is the biggest wheat importer in the world, but loses as much as 40% to spoilage. The delegation right now is in Chicago to figure out how they can have a commodities exchange in Cairo, and Blumberg, which is a real estate investor out of Florida, got into this secure storage business, and this is its first huge deal, billions of dollars."

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Blumberg Grain was featured in a CairoScene article this month titled "US TYCOON: USE YOUR LOAF, EGYPT", which proclaims that Egypt's bread crisis could soon be resolved by Blumberg, which is launching a new venture in Egypt to introduce new nationwide storage facilities that are set to prevent spoilage and reduce price volatility. An excerpt follows:

It was Marie Antionette who once said let them eat cake – well now a US business tycoon could soon have Egyptians scoffing some of the best loaf on the planet.

Philip Blumberg, head of Blumberg Capital Partners, has launched the tasty new venture after successive politicians failed to solve the riddle of lowering bread prices despite the relatively high cost of purchasing grain, thanks to the country’s poor credit rating.

He said: "Egypt is the largest importer of wheat in the world, but they have to buy it on the spot market. It’s crazy. The largest wheat buyer in the world is constrained by storage."

Blumberg has now reached a deal with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to build 164 grain-storage facilities designed to prevent spoilage, reduce price volatility and eventually lead to a local commodities exchange.

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Blumberg Grain was featured in a Medill Report titled "Climate change hits your fridge", examining problems for farmers and increasingly straining the global food supply. An excerpt follows:

"We came face-to-face with the issue of post-harvest losses, which is an issue that is sort of lost upon the American public," said food security expert David Blumberg, describing a 2010 trip to India that exposed first hand the enormity of food safety issues farmers face in developing countries against the weather.

Rain had washed grain into the streets, he said. When touring the rest of the country they found similar food storage problems in almost every other small town.

"There wasn't adequate storage infrastructure in place to hold onto the harvest of the farmers for that season," Blumberg said. "So food was getting eaten by birds, rodents, insects, or molding because the rain had fell on it."

Blumberg is the chief executive officer of Blumberg Grain, a company that installs technologically advanced grain and produce storage systems that enable farmers to protect their harvests from rot, climate and pests.

About 40 percent of food in the U.S. is lost in the transition from farm to fork, according to a 2012 paper by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The trend applies to developing countries as well, Blumberg said, and the company looks for ways to lessen losses by providing specialty warehouses featuring controlled atmosphere technology. It pumps nitrogen into the environment to delay expiration, such as extending the lifetime of a mango to five months, for example.

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An article was published by ONews Agency titled "Minister of Supply: 3 major projects for the storage of wheat at a cost of 3 billion and 206 million pounds" discussing the meeting between President Abdel Fattah Sisi with Dr. Khaled Hanafi, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, and Blumberg executive team members to discuss new projects in Egypt. An excerpt follows:

Dr. Khaled Hanafi Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, following the two meetings commented, that the first meeting was with President Abdel Fattah Sisi with the aim of a group of international investors to set up three major projects, the first project at a cost of one hundred million dollars for the construction of the first plant for storage technology and modern logistics warehouses to serve the domestic market and export to markets Arab and African countries.

The second project at a cost of one billion and one hundred and ten million pounds to create the ten modern logistics areas, as the first stage, for the storage and trade of perishable products from fruits and vegetables to reduce production costs, and thus prices, and preserving the rights of agricultural producers, so they can provide the goods and provide to citizens at discounted prices, which provides 40% of the costs as a result of avoiding wastage in the trading, transportation and storage.

The Minister of Supply and Internal Trade said that a third project at a cost of one billion and three hundred and eighty-one million pounds to bring one hundred sixty-four shounas to modern global standards. Instead of dirt barns will use modern technology to suit the conditions of the Egyptian environment, which includes operations of receiving and handling and storage of wheat and grain, and provides about 30% as a result of the cost to avoid wastage in wheat trading operations. Balhun exposed and dirt, as well as the classification of Egyptian wheat for the first time in order to preserve the rights of farmers and draw some wheat varieties are expensive and exported abroad.

To read the full article, click here (for the original Arabic version, use this link). For more news and information visit Blumberg Capital Partners.

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Blumberg Grain was featured in an article this weekend titled "Sisi with the Head of Blumberg for 3 projects for the storage of grain and fruit" which summarizes a meeting in which President Abdel Fattah Sisi met with Philip Blumberg, Dr. Khalid Al-Hanafi, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, David Blumberg, Managing Director of Blumberg Grain West Africa, and Christian Rath, Senior Vice President of the Blumberg Grain company. An excerpt follows:

The meeting was aimed at review and discuss three major projects, including the creation of the company's first factory for storage technology in the Middle East, which will serve the local market, and targets integration with the national project of the giant development axis at the Suez Canal, as well as providing opportunities to export to the Arab countries and African countries, where the project will the world's largest in its field, and direct investments worth 100 million dollars.

It also included discussions on project to replace the storage barns (dirt shounas) with Blumberg's modern and advanced technology, which are specially designed to suit the conditions of production and circulation, which is used to store grain and wheat, providing more than 30% of grain crops, ie, 1.2 million tons, which was being wasted due to the poor conditions of storage and handling, and a total cost of 1.7 billion pounds.

The third project would seek to establish a ten areas of logistics, as a first stage, for the purpose of processing, storage and preservation of agricultural products, grains, vegetables and fruits, to avoid wastage of 40% of these crops, as well as the opportunity to control prices by storing these products, and re-launched in the market to set prices and control expensiveness. Note that these three projects were under consideration at the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade, during the past three months.

To read the full article, click here (for the original Arabic version, use this link). For more news and information visit Blumberg Capital Partners.