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Egypt is one of the top ten onion exporters in the world

Fresh Onion
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Egypt
Published Jan 11, 2022

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Dr. Abdul Majeed Mabrouk Abu Dahab, Head of the Onion Research Department at the Field Crops Research Institute, said in a special statement to "Akhbar Al-Youm" portal that the onion crop is one of the most important field crops in the world, and it is grown in many Arab countries such as Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan Oman, Lebanon and Yemen on a large scale. As for the superior foreign countries that compete with Egypt fiercely, they are China, India and the United States of America. He continued. From an economic point of view, onions are among the crops of high economic value in Egypt and in the countries of the world, whether fresh or dried, and onions were the traditional crop Egypt is the third exporter after cotton and rice in terms of cash return in the sixties. He continued, as for now, onions come after citrus and potatoes, the third largest export crop, and Egypt ranked fourth after India, China and the United States of America in the total ...
Source: Akhbarelyom
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