Cairo, 3 June 2008
1. Wide pan of traffic over bridge in Cairo
2. Wide of fruit and vegetable market
3.
Woman putting chillies into basket
4.
Vegetables vendor weighing chillies
5. Vendor putting oranges into bag
6. SOUNDBITE: (
Arabic)
Mohamed Salah, Cairo inhabitant:
"The prices are soaring, everything is getting expensive, even gold is getting expensive too, if someone wants to get married how will he/she do?"
7.
People walking in street
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
Mohamed Farouk, Cairo inhabitant:
"Before, with ten (
Egyptian) pounds (1.87
US dollars) you had a bottle of oil and one kilo of sugar but now it does not even buy one bottle of oil."
8. Prices on display in supermarket
9. Bottles of oil on display
10. Pan across supermarket
11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
Bahia (no last name given), Cairo inhabitant:
"
Everything became very expensive: from a bottle of oil, to a kilo of rice; everyone is talking about this issue."
12. Man making bread inside bakery
13.
Close of hot breads coming out of oven
14. Man sorting breads
15. People queuing outside bakery
16. Close-up of bread
17. Set-up shot of deputy from the
Ministry of Agriculture,
Abdel Salam Gomma
18. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Abdel Salam Gomma, deputy from the Ministry of Agriculture:
"The average population rate in
Egypt is increasing very fast, by a million and a half every year. The population needs more food every year. For example, the average wheat needed every year for just the annual increase (of population) is an extra 40- to 70-thousand acres (162 to 283 square kilometres), and that just to secure food for the new births. I think what Egypt needs is to use new methods of agriculture, re-cultivate more land and increase crop production."
Cairo suburbs, 3 June 2008
19. Wide of field
20.
Farmer working in field
21. Farmer feeding cow
22. Farmer spraying field
STORYLINE:
Consumers and officials in Cairo expressed concern about recent food price hikes on Tuesday, as
United Nations chief
Ban Ki-moon told world leaders at a summit in
Rome that world food production must rise by 50 percent by
2030 to meet increasing demand.
The world's most populous
Arab country, highly dependent on imported food, has been wracked by social unrest as many citizens struggle with stagnant wages and high inflation.
Prices have rocketed for daily necessities such as oil or sugar.
"Before, with ten (Egyptian) pounds (1.87 US dollars) you had a bottle of oil and one kilo of sugar but now it does not even buy one bottle of oil," one local resident, Mohamed Farouk told AP
Television in Cairo.
"Everything became very expensive: from a bottle of oil, to a kilo of rice; everyone is talking about this issue," said Bahia, another Cairo inhabitant.
Egyptian officials are also warning of the consequences of the country's population rise.
A deputy from the Ministry of Agriculture, Abdel Salam Gomma, says that the population rate in Egypt "is increasing very fast, by a million and a half every year."
"For example, the average wheat needed every year for just the annual increase (of population) is an extra 40- to 70-thousand acres (162 to 283 square kilometres), and that just to secure food for the new births," he added.
He suggested that Egypt should "use new methods of agriculture, re-cultivate more land and increase crop production."
Some 20 percent of Egypt's 76.5 (m) million people live below the poverty line of about 2 US dollars per day.
Violent protests against rising prices in Egypt resulted in three deaths last month.
Eleven people have also died over the past few months in the country during fights that broke out in lines to buy subsidised bread.
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