Sugarcane season kicks off strongly in Egypt

Sun, 2023-01-22 00:51

CAIRO: The sugarcane harvesting season has begun in Egypt, with the governorate of Upper Egypt in the south of the country a major cultivation site.

“The target is to obtain about 7.7 million tons of sugarcane in the current harvest season to produce about 850,000 tons of sugar,” Major General Essam El-Din Al-Budawi, head of the Sugar and Integrated Industries Company, told Arab. news.

He added that the company has eight factories across Egypt in five governorates – Aswan, Luxor, Qena, Sohag, Minya – to produce sugar from sugarcane and sugar beet.

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