Food exports to Uganda in 2020 reached $18 million

Published 2021년 4월 7일

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In 2020, Egypt's industrial food exports to Uganda saw a 16% growth, reaching a value of 18 million dollars. Sugar was the primary export to Uganda, making up 36% of the total exports. Other exports included pasta, food for animals, yeasts, grain preparations, frozen potatoes, and dry sweets. The number of Egyptian companies exporting to Uganda in 2020 was 60, with 19 of these companies exceeding $100,000 in exports. The Ugandan market imports palm oils, sugar, animal food, sweets, lollipops, frankincense, margarine, and fish. The Export Council for Food Industries is planning to identify more commodities for export to Uganda for a forthcoming exhibition in June.

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Eng. Tamim Al-Dawi, Deputy Executive Director of the Export Council for Food Industries, said that the total value of industrial food exports to Uganda reached 18 million dollars in 2020, despite being modest figures, but they are on the way to rise after achieving 16% growth compared to the previous year in 2019, and occupies Uganda ranked 41st in the list of the most important importing countries from Egypt. Tamim added during the Food Industries Export Council symposium on export opportunities to Uganda in cooperation with commercial representation via video conference, that the most important commodity that we export to Uganda with this value during the past year is sugar, and it represents 36% of exports to Uganda with a value of 7 million dollars, followed by pasta with a value of 6 million dollars. One million dollars, food prepared for animals represents 2 million dollars, yeasts 1.3 million dollars, grain preparations 500 thousand dollars, frozen potatoes 500 thousand ...

Source: Youm7