The UAE exempts Egyptian agricultural exports from attaching a pesticide residue certificate until mid-March

Al-Mal learned that the UAE excluded Egyptian agricultural exports from attaching a certificate for pesticide residues until mid-March, provided that the shipments are examined at the port of arrival by the Emiratis. Negotiations with the UAE side also ended with a certificate of pesticide residues being attached to orange shipments starting from mid-April. The Ministry of Agriculture had announced the continuation of the implementation of the new system for coding farms and export entities in full, after the increase in the volume of Egyptian agricultural exports during the period from January 2021 until now to about 5.2 million tons of agricultural products, an increase of 600 thousand tons over the same period last year. . For his part, Dr. Ahmed Al-Attar, head of the Central Department of Agricultural Quarantine at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the actual implementation of a new system for tracking agricultural exports has been started, which depends on the gradual ...