Egypt Fruits insights

A report from the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service notes that Egypt's table grape production is expected to increase to 1.59 million metric tons in marketing year 2024/2025.

Dr. Mohamed El-Mansi, Head of the Central Administration of Agricultural Quarantine, announced the start of coding strawberry farms as well as the start of the export season. Eng. Mohamed Fawzy, Director of the Exporters Service Department, issued a number of discount documents for coded strawberry farms after receiving requests to code strawberry farms for the new season 2024/2025.

According to the results of the past 2023/24 season (October-September), Poland imported a record volume of tangerines from Egypt, EastFruit reports. During the first 11 months of this season, 6.8 thousand tons of tangerines were delivered directly from Egypt to Poland, which is more than double the figure for the previous season (3 thousand tons). Moreover, Egypt has reached sixth place in the ranking of tangerine suppliers to the Polish market for the first time, although 3-4 years ago it occupied only 10-12 places in it. For Egypt, tangerines are the number two category in citrus exports, although they are several times inferior to oranges in this regard. Nevertheless, Egyptian suppliers continue to diversify their exports, developing both new export categories and new sales markets. At the same time, Poland, due to the active increase in imports of vegetables and fruits, can be an excellent option for such diversification. In the tangerine segment, seasonal imports in Poland vary from 140 thousand tons to 170 thousand tons, and in the current season its indicator is