The Ministry of Industry: The procedures for including 12 factories in the white list of producers and exporters of dates are being completed in Egypt

revealed d. Amjad Al-Qadi, Executive Director of the Food Industries Technology Center at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, said that the procedures for including 12 date factories in the white list of factories that meet the requirements of the National Food Safety Authority are being completed. This comes within the framework of the ministry's strategy to develop the dates sector, which includes expanding the cultivation of date varieties that receive global demand. Al-Qadi said that although it is one of the largest dates producing countries globally, its share of the global date trade volume does not exceed 4%, noting that Dates exports during the past year amounted to about 43 thousand tons, equivalent to 43 million dollars, and they were exported to 63 countries, compared to 50 countries in 2019. The global market is not aware of the Egyptian varieties. El-Kady said that the only exported variety (Al-Siwi-Saidi), which is considered a dry variety, has a production volume ...