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The domestic supply price farmers receive in Egypt is E£1,200 (US$211) per ton compared to approximately E£1,940 (US$340) per ton for import from the US, Egypt's main supplier of wheat and corn. Egypt is the U.S.'s largest market for wheat and corn sales, accounting for US$1 billion annually and about 46% of Egypt's needs from imported wheat.
Minya [spelling 1] (Arabic: المنيا ; Coptic: ⲧⲙⲱⲛⲏ, romanized: tmōnē) is the capital of the Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt.It is located approximately 245 km (152 mi) south of Cairo on the western bank of the Nile River, which flows north through the city.
This is a list of megaprojects, which may be defined in the following categories: Projects that cost more than US$1 billion and attract a large amount of public attention because of substantial impacts on communities , the natural and built environment , and budgets .
Egypt is the eighth most water stressed country in the world. Apart from the Nile Valley, the majority of Egypt's landscape is desert, with a few oases scattered about. Winds create prolific sand dunes that peak at more than 30 metres (100 ft) high. Egypt includes parts of the Sahara desert and of the Libyan Desert.
The Arab conquest of Egypt, led by the army of Amr ibn al-As, took place between 639 and 642 AD and was overseen by the Rashidun Caliphate. [1] It ended the seven-century-long Roman period in Egypt that had begun in 30 BC and, more broadly, the Greco-Roman period that had lasted about a millennium.
[10] [11] Ford Motors has since returned to profitability, [12] and was the eleventh-ranked overall American-based company in the 2018 Fortune 500 list, based on global revenues in 2017 of $156.7 billion. [13] In 2023, Ford produced 4.4 million automobiles, and employed about 177,000 employees worldwide.