based agriculture investment firm Jenaan, which acquired 160,000 feddans of land in Egypt, said it was changing its strategy in Egypt to growing wheat and helping ensure food supplies for the domestic market, instead of forage for export. “The Abu Dhabi government has advised us that we have to be part of Egypt’s food security, and that is why we have already started growing wheat there now,” Jenaan Chairman Mohammad al Otaiba told Reuters.Jenaan changes …

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