Egypt is confidently approaching another record for sweet potato exports to the EU

Published 2024년 1월 25일

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Egypt has seen a significant increase in its yam export season, particularly to the EU, with a record for sweet potato exports anticipated. In the first five months of the 2023/24 season, EU countries imported 63 thousand tons of sweet potatoes from Egypt, a 1.5 times increase from the same period in the previous season. The Netherlands is the primary buyer among EU countries, with other importers including France, Italy, Slovenia, Romania, Spain, and Germany. Egypt's main competitors in the EU sweet potato market are the United States, China, South Africa, Honduras, Brazil, and Peru.

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The first months of the current yam export season in Egypt have been extremely successful for exporters. In July-November 2023, Egypt not only managed to significantly increase the volume of its supplies to the EU, but also received all the prerequisites for the next update of the record for sweet potato exports to the EU market, EastFruit reports. In the first 5 months of the 2023/24 season (July-June), EU countries imported 63 thousand tons of sweet potatoes from Egypt, which is one and a half times more than in the same period of the previous season. Moreover, this figure actually corresponds to the volume of supplies for the entire 2021/22 season. This allows us to say now that Egypt will be able to maintain high rates of export growth at the end of the current season. Let us remind you that since the 2017/18 season, the export of Egyptian sweet potatoes to the EU countries has increased 14 times! Moreover, rising imports of Egyptian sweet potatoes remain a key factor in the ...

Source: Eastfruit