date:Apr 08, 2013
He said private Egyptian investors would plant sunflower on 500,000 feddan (210,000 hectares) of land earmarked for joint agricultural projects under a deal reached by Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and Sudanese President Hassan Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum last Friday.
Production will start within a few months and enable Egypt to phase out imports, which consume scarce hard currency reserves.
After that, we will be able to satisfy our needs of sunflower oil and we will not need to buy from th