FILE: Egypt exports dates to around 42 countriesCAIRO – 22 December 2018: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that Egypt is currently working on the biggest date plantation that will include around 2,500 million palm trees to produce top quality dates. Sisi’s remarks came on the sideline of the inauguration of the National Greenhouses Project in the 10th of Ramadan city. He added that the average price per ton increased during the first quarter of 2018 to $980, compared to $824 in the same period of 2017. Kabil said that dates have been exported to 42 countries, with Indonesia, Morocco, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Thailand topping the list. Egypt is the world’s largest dates producer, capturing 18 percent of the global dates production and 23 percent of the Arab dates production, Kabil said.

Source: Egypt Today December 22, 2018 10:41 UTC