Egypt Today - Egypt will start exporting agricultural products to the Philippines, after five years of intensive technical negotiations between the two sides, said the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement on Friday.

The ministry added that the first shipment of Egyptian citrus is expected to be exported during the current season, according to Reuters. Egyptian agriculture exports from January to 24 August this year have amounted to around 4,491,099 tons, Minister of Agriculture El Sayed El-Qusseir has said on August 26, 2022.

A report by Ahmed El-Attar, head of the ministry’s Egyptian Agricultural Quarantine, has affirmed that the most prominent Egyptian agricultural exports this year are citrus fruits, potatoes, onions, grapes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, strawberries, beans, guavas, mangoes, garlic, and watermelons.

The total agricultural exports of citrus reached around 1.6 million tons, ranking first among Egyptian agricultural exports, followed by potatoes at 831,696 tons.