Egypt is the EU's third largest carrot supplier

In 2022/23, Egypt was the third largest supplier of carrots to the EU, with 12,000 tonnes from July 2022 to June 2023, EastFruit reports. This is a record for Egypt. It was 33 times as many as in 2021/22 and 7 times as many as in 2018/19, the previous record season. As before, Egyptian carrots were mainly exported to the EU in spring and early summer. The growth was accompanied by an overall increase in European carrot imports due to problems with the country's own harvest. In Poland, for example, the 2022 carrot harvest fell by 8% and prices reached a record $1.10 per kilo in May 2023. Poland, which imported 11,600 tonnes of carrots from third countries, was the fourth largest importer of this product in the EU. In total, the EU imported 126,000 tons of carrots from third countries last season. That is 2.5 times more than between July 2021 and June 2022. Romania, the Netherlands and Bulgaria are the three largest importers. Turkey remained the largest supplier for the fourth ...