Egypt targets agriculture exports worth $ 20 billion by 2030

Egypt intends to increase its agriculture exports by 2030 to 20 billion, compared to $ 10.6 billion last year, and an increase in the expected exports this year to 12 billion, according to Land Minister Alaa Farouk. He noted, in an interview with Al -Sharq about the sidelines of the effectiveness of the food security dialogue in Cairo, that his country has all agricultural qualifications that enable it to increase the volume of its agricultural exports, pointing out that the contributions of the new agricultural land will help reach the target number. Egypt makes efforts to bring self -sufficiency in meat and relating to the production of meat, Farouk explained that the government is doing its best to increase the percentage of self -sufficiency in meat from the current rate of 60%, adding that it is parallel to the works to improve the genetic genes of the livestock. As far as the fertilizer is concerned, the Egyptian official revealed that Egypt has a self -sufficiency of fertilizers, but also exports, saying that complaints related to the lack of amounts of fertilizers distributed to farmers are due to the wrong practices and abuse of this product, which pointed out that the ministry has a comprehensive system to control the control of the control of the black market. Farouk revealed that the Ministry of Agriculture handed the farmers over one million tonnes of fertilizer during the current summer season, and continued that despite the stop of production in factories a month and a half due to the lack of gas due to geopolitical events, but most farmers received more than 85% of the fertilizer shares for them.