Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.9 / Trend A.Taghiyeva /
Egypt refused to import 3 batches of grain from last crop from Kazakhstan due to discrepancy in types of imported grain, the department of the Main Office on goods supply of Egypt told Trend on Thursday.
"Imported batches of grain differed from those Egypt and Kazakhstan agreed on," the department said.
However despite this fact Kazakhstan remains priority grain supplier to the country, the department said.
"This incident didn't affect our cooperation. We will continue to buy grain from Kazakhstan on the basis of agreement signed earlier," the department noted.
According to the information, the Kazakh grain was replaced by the Russian.
Egypt is considered the world's largest wheat importer, annually buying about 10 million tons of grain per year. Annual average grain consumption in Egypt amounts to about 180 kg per each citizen. The main countries exporting grain to Egypt are Russian, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the US, Canada, France and Australia.
This year Kazakhstan harvested a record volume of grain over independence years - 26 million tons of grain crops in net weight. Export potential is 15 million tons.