Citrus exports for the year 2022-2023 reached $920 million: The agricultural quarantine clarifies Saudi Arabia’s position on Egyptian strawberries

Dr. Saad Moussa, supervisor of the Egyptian agricultural quarantine, confirmed that the Saudi decision to stop receiving strawberry imports is not a ban or rejection, for quarantine or health reasons, but its intent is to regulate the internal market in the Kingdom, according to supply and demand data. Adding that the Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Mr. Al-Quseir, is constantly and intensively following up, along with the agricultural quarantine, developments regarding everything related to Egyptian agricultural exports. In a statement by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in Egypt, Dr. Saad Moussa explained that the decision of the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture is an internal procedural and regulatory decision that concerns the Kingdom, and has been applied to most of the agricultural imports to it from all countries of the world, and that Egypt is not alone concerned with the decision; This is in light of what was ...