while there is still a lack of unified vision on food storage regionally the theme of the arab agriculture day in celebrated on september was arabic strategic stocks of food to cope with the global food crisis individual countries have been active building their storage capacity especially for cereals with various levels of projections see table in an effort to reduce the high crop losses in egypt estimated at per cent and costing around million annually the government of egypt is planning for a project that aims to build new silos per year in an effort to increase substantially its strategic storage capacity available from grain chain eng ndf accessed march