How did production of grain change with Hellenistic Egypt coming under Roman rule?
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Egypt (and in fact all of north Africa) was the granary of the Roman Empire.
This has only some to do with the way they controlled the area, far more important is the fact that the land was a lot less arid then than it is today.
When people see the pyramids and Roman ruins rise from the desert and wonder what people were doing building a vast civilisation in that hostile climate, they don't realise that at the time the climate wasn't hostile. It was a lush, green, land. It's just that the desert has encroached over the centuries, in no small part coinciding with the demise of those civilisations, at around the same time the little ice age destroyed agriculture in central and northern Europe. Europe recovered, north Africa did not, or to a far lesser degree.
So even if your assertion that the Greeks were harsh when ruling Egypt, I seriously doubt that had a major influence on the region's ability to produce a rich harvest.
And what makes you think the Romans were any less harsh with their conquered areas? Or in fact the Egyptian rulers themselves when independent?
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