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

Sugar Beet

Sugar

Vegetables

Egypt

Published Mar 10, 2023

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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 feddans 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 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 tons of sugar from beets. Abu Al-Yazid added, during media statements, that with the interest and keenness of the political leadership, there have now been 8 factories to produce sugar from beets, and that the company.. .

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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