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Bahrain, Major Exporter of fruit seedlings


Bahrain exported 225,800 fruit seedlings to India, and Kenya after making sure they meet all international health plant criteria, a report by the Central Administration for Orchards and Agricultural Crops revealed by the Agriculture Seed Committee, after a A rubber stamp the deal to export was handed over to them.

The statistics for each fruits is 224,000 strawberry seedlings exported to India, and 1,800 mango (Keitt and Sokary), orange, volkameriana Volkamer lemon, mandarin and annona seedlings exported to the other two countries.

A report was provided by the Central Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture in May revealing that Egypt's exports of fruits and vegetables rose to 1,700,000 tons since the beginning of the season of fruits and vegetables.

Head of the Central Department of Agricultural Quarantine at Ministry of Agriculture Ahmed AL-Attar underscore that these shipments were exported to the European Union in accordance with international export quality standards, affirming this was implied so that the Egyptian agricultural products could be exported to different countries like India, Africa, China without any obstacles.

The Ministry of Agriculture is applying a very strict measures on all exports of vegetables and fruits to maintain the reputation of the Egyptian agricultural exports.

There was an increase in Egyptian agricultural exports of vegetables and fruits to various countries of the world increased, amounting to about 2.88 million tons, according to a report by the Agriculture Ministry's Central Administration for Agricultural Quarantine.

The major achievement and success for Egypt was opening new markets for agricultural crops in a large number of countries, especially in China, the European Union and East Asian countries. This came in as a plus point to Egypt's success in lifting the ban on Egyptian agricultural exports in some countries, which confirmed the safety of Egyptian procedures and the quality of their agricultural crops, former Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Abdel Moneim el-Banna said.

The exports of citrus fruits increased to reach $502 million during 2017-2018, compared to $446 million during 2016-2017 of Egypt.


Source : UAE Timez
Posted on :5/29/2019