date:Mar 13, 2019
port for the Egyptian citrus. Since 2014, the volume of Egyptian citrus arriving in Europe via Dutch ports has doubled. In 2014, 56,000 tonnes of Egyptian oranges arrived in the Dutch ports. In 2017, the counter was at 115,000 tonnes.
For export to grow like this, production also has to be increasing. In 2017, the country had 119,581 hectares of orange production. Compared to 2010, that area had increased by 18 per cent. In 2017, that area resulted in a harvest of more than 3 million tonnes of