Egyptian citrus invades the world market
Egypt's exports of agricultural crops increased overall during the past year to 5.5 million tons, compared to 5.2 million tons in 2018, an increase of 300,000 tons, and that stage gradually increased from 4.2 million tons almost 3 years ago, we will look at Egypt's global ranking in the production and export of citrus fruits and the most important citrus fruits produced by Egypt.
A boom in Egyptian agriculture
International reports attributed the boom in Egypt's citrus exports to overall production growth in Egypt, with an interest in improving irrigation operations and lower labor costs, with a pound depreciation, and considered that all of these factors contributed to reducing the price of the Egyptian orange globally.
This comes with the support of expansion in the various export markets, which allowed an increase in quantities, especially after paying attention to safety and quality measures for products intended for export, In this article
Egypt's ranking globally in the production and export of citrus
Egypt ranks sixth in the world in citrus production in general, with quantities amounting to 3.42 million tons in the 2018-2019 season, with growth of approximately 7% over the yield of the previous season, but it ranked first in the export of citrus for the second time in a row.
Types of citrus fruits in Egypt
Egypt is famous for producing many varieties of oranges, mandarin and lemon
The following is an overview of these items:
1- Orange, Abu Sora, Washington
An excellent variety found in Lower Egypt, especially the delta region, except for desert areas. Some high-quality and productive strains, such as the 1-31 strain, have been elected and distributed to farmers along and the cultivated area 150 thousand feddans.
2- Baladi orange
It is a juicy variety, but the number of seeds is blemished with the phenomenon of navigating fruits, especially at the end of the season. The Horticultural Research Institute has elected a new breed that does not contain these defects and is called the improved municipal orange. Also, some foreign strains were imported such as Pine Apple, Parson Brown, Hamelin Clan William, and all of them are characterized by high quality of fruits with abundant yield and cultivated area of 40 thousand acres.
3- Valencian orange (summer)
The popularity of this variety has increased, especially in recent years, after its proven success in the new lands in the desert areas, and it is an excellent variety suitable for export besides the possibility of storing it on trees until the month of June. A thousand acres
4- Sugar oranges
Fruits are almost free of acidity, which shows them a clear glycaemic taste, despite the fact that the percentage of sugars in them does not exceed other varieties of oranges.
5- Khalili orange
An excellent variety, characterized by the large size of its fruits, its shape is oval, oblong, and the crust of the fruit is bright orange in colour and has a large thickness, which increases the ability of the fruits to bear the shipping and marketing, the taste of pulp and juice is luxurious and the seeds are very little or no, and there are two strains of which are white and white-red-green-colored.
6- Orange powder
Fruits are distinguished by the colouring of pulp, juice, and outer shell with one of the shades of red, due to the presence of red anthocyanins, which is a relatively late ripening variety and is popular with local markets.
7- Al-Yousifi Al-Baladi
It is one of the most citrus varieties that the Egyptian consumer accepts, but the large number of seeds suffers with the occurrence of the phenomenon of exchange of pregnancy and its intolerance to trading operations, especially at the end of the season.
8- Chinese mandarin
Imported variety is characterized by the large size of the fruits and the small number of seeds and the taste is good and can be grown at relatively narrow distances due to the nature of the growth of existing trees.
9- Youssefi Kino
Late maturity, which allows to prolong the period of displaying mandarin fruits in the market, but it is still under testing and evaluation under local conditions.
10- Youssefi Clementine
Among the varieties of tangerines whose shell has a reddish-orange colour with the absence of seeds from the seeds, as it is an early-ripening variety, except that its fruits are relatively small in size, but the poor yield is poor.
11- Egyptian salty lemon
Its cultivation succeeds in new lands especially in sandy soil due to its tolerance to thirst or drought conditions, and its fruits are characterized by high acidity (6-9%) in addition to that it is rich in Vitamin C, and farmers have strongly accepted to cultivate this variety in recent years due to the abundance of the crop.
12- Rational lemon
An elected strain of benzher lemons, characterized by the large size of the fruits, with a small number of seeds, beside the abundance of the crop.
13- Lemon Dahlia
The fruits are large in size, with a clear apical nipple, and the strong-growing trees are abundant in production, and there are varieties of it in Villafranca, Melon and Eureka in Egypt.
14- The lemon lemon
Imported nose is characterized by the small size of trees and free of thorns with large size of fruits and devoid of seeds, but the shortage of crops is faulty, so it is grown on narrow distances to increase the number of trees in a unit area.
15- Grapefruit "Red Ruby"
Fruits are few seeds and the colour of the juices tends to be red and this variety is very desirable in the global markets, so it can be expanded in order to export as it grows in the lower face and the trees are given an abundant crop, especially in sandy lands.
16- Marsh grapefruit
It is a low-seeded variety grown in very limited areas in Egypt.
17- Star Red Grapefruit
Fruits are low in seeds and take juice and the peel of the fruit is a dark red colour, and this variety is very desirable in the global markets and has been introduced in Egypt recently.
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