Egypt targets raising self-sufficiency of oil crops to 10% by 2025

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Thu, 30 Sep 2021 - 10:02 GMT

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Land cultivated with sunflower – Wikimedia Commons

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CAIRO – 30 September 2021: The government targets to raise Egypt's self-sufficiency of oil crops from three percent to 10 percent by 2025. Nonetheless, it is expected to double by mid-2022.
 

Egypt is also vying for enhancing self-sufficiency of other crops and goods. Speaking of wheat, the self-sufficiency rate of that crop increased from 34.5 percent in 2017 to 35.5 percent in 2018 and 40.3 percent in 2019. Further, Egypt is estimated to achieve full self-sufficiency of sugar in three years.
 

Regarding the self-sufficiency rate of red meat, it improved, rising from 46.9 percent in 2018 to 55 percent in 2019 and 57 percent in 2020.

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