It was another night of miscellany on the airwaves, with the conversation shuffling between the denial of rumors about an upcoming fuel price hike, bad tomato seeds, and educational reform.

** #3 The Madbouly Cabinet is not planning to raise fuel prices again this calendar year, spokesperson Nader Saad told Hona Al Asema Reham Ibrahim. The cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center issued a statement yesterday to debunk rumors circulating in the local press and on social media claiming that the government is getting ready for another round of fuel subsidy cuts this year to help it cope with rising oil prices (watch, runtime: 5:19). Saad then discussed the impact of the surge in global crude prices on Egypt’s subsidy bill with Amr Adib on El Hekaya (watch: runtime: 6:01).

The Agriculture Ministry halted imports of all tomato seeds carrying the code F023 after crops tested positive for yellow curl leaf virus. Agriculture Ministry spokesperson Hamed Abdel Dayem told Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary that the company responsible for importing the bad seeds will bear the cost of thousands of feddans’ worth of lost crops. Agriculture Export Council Chairman Abdel Hamid Demerdash also urged the importing company to contact its supplier to determine how the issue came to be (watch, runtime: 22:02).

Some 2.5 mn Egyptian students are now studying under the government’s new education system, Education Minister Tarek Shawki said on Al Hayah Al Youm. He walked hosts Lobna Asal and Khaled Abu Bakr through the ministry’s new K-12 education reform strategy and briefly touched on the resistance it’s being met with (watch, runtime: 8:09). Separately, Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hossary had a chat with deputy education minister for technical education Mohamed Megahed (watch, runtime: 5:26).

Meanwhile, a discussion on the regulation and licensing of private healthcare providers took up significant air time on Hona Al Asema (watch, runtime: 41:57).