Egypt: The beet crop is the key to achieving 90% self-sufficiency in sugar

Published 2023년 3월 9일

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Egypt has achieved nearly 90% self-sufficiency in local sugar production, a significant achievement attributed to the cultivation of sugar beets across 630 thousand acres. This has led to the production of approximately 1.8 million tons of sugar from beets and 900 thousand tons from cane, covering about 90% of the country's annual sugar needs. The success is largely due to the political leadership's interest, the introduction of new sugar beet varieties, and the implementation of contract farming inspired by Law No. 14 of 2015. This law has resulted in free seeds for early harvest and subsidies for remaining seeds, free transportation of crops to factories, and quality-based incentives for farmers. Additionally, Egypt is developing sugar production factories under the supervision of Minister Ali Al-Moselhy, with plans to increase self-sufficiency further. The country also benefits from Saudi investments in sugar refining, aiming to reduce imported sugar and save foreign currency.

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Dr. Ahmed Abu Al-Yazid, Head of Delta Sugar and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Ain Shams University, confirmed that the sugar beet crop is one of the important strategic crops that helped the country reach self-sufficiency in local sugar, at a rate of about 90%. Abu Al-Yazid indicated that Egypt In the past, it relied on the production of sugar from cane only, as approximately 340,000 acres of cane are cultivated in the governorates of Upper Egypt. Local sugar and its cultivation began to spread as a result of the interest of the political leadership in the last period, and the expansion of the establishment of national projects such as the Future of Egypt project and the 1.5 million acres project, in which the cultivation of the sugar beet crop began to spread. Egypt now has an area of no less than 630 thousand acres cultivated with the sugar beet crop. The sugar beet crop produces about 12.5 million tons of beets, and these quantities produce approximately 1.8 million ...

Source: Akhbarelyom