2025 saw a surge in Egypt’s feed raw material imports. Yellow corn imports exceeded 10 million tonnes, up from 9.3 million the year before, and soybean imports hit a record of around 5 million tonnes, driven by better foreign-currency availability, roughly 4% growth in poultry and the expansion of aquaculture.
Where do the raw materials come from?
Brazil has become Egypt’s leading corn supplier with about half of imports, followed by Argentina with about a quarter and then Ukraine, with a notable return of U.S. corn. Soybeans are dominated by the United States with a share above 70%. In specialised ingredients, Egypt imported around 99,000 tonnes of DDGS and 34,000 tonnes of corn gluten meal from the United States in the 2024/25 season.
What does this mean for feed mills?
With a poultry ration of around 70% corn and 20% soybean meal, any variation in shipment quality or timing feeds straight into production cost at more than 180 poultry feed mills. That is where a supplier with direct relationships at origin and its own logistics arm inside Egyptian ports makes the difference.
Hany Mazhar Group’s companies work in these same origins and manage shipments from contract to the customer’s warehouse.
