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Egyptian workers pack oranges on conveyors inside a packhouse located in Beheira province Cheap Shabazz Napier Jersey , north of Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Jan. 24, 2018. Thanks to the fast-growing demand in China for quality fruits, Egypt has witnessed a rapid increase in its citrus exports to China in the past years, which has led many Egyptian citrus farms to prosper. Now Egypt, famous for producing sweet juicy oranges, has become the third largest exporter of citrus to China after South Africa and the United States. (XinhuaZhao Dingzhe)
CAIROBEHEIRA Cheap Moe Harkless Jersey , Egypt, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Thanks to the fast-growing demand in China for quality fruits, Egypt has witnessed a rapid increase in its citrus exports to China in the past years, which has led many Egyptian citrus farms to prosper.


Now Egypt, famous for producing sweet juicy oranges, has become the third largest exporter of citrus to China after South Africa and the United States.


"We began citrus export to China with over 23,000 tons in the first year in 2015, which then increased to more than 36 Cheap Evan Turner Jersey ,000 tons in 2016 and finally jumped to exceed 101,000 tons in 2017, which is more than three times increase since we started," said Mohsen al-Beltagy, chairman of Egypt's Horticultural Export Improvement Association (HEIA).


HEIA, founded in 1996, is in charge of selecting certified farms and arranging citrus exports to several parts of the world including European and Asian states in coordination with concerned agricultural authorities home and abroad.


"We inspect the farms and choose the best of them to export to China, in cooperation with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture who visit us here to see the farms Cheap Clyde Drexler Jersey ," Beltagy told Xinhua at his office in Cairo.


HEIA also holds training programs for Egyptian citrus farmers to raise the quality of their fruits to be exported to China, Beltagy said.

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Han Bing, economic and commercial counselor at China's Embassy in Cairo, noted that Egypt's orange exports to China hit 20 million U.S. dollars in 2015 and sharply increased to 80 million dollars in 2016.


"Chinese market is a big, open and highly-competitive. Our imports from all over the world will reach 10 trillion dollars in the next five years," Hang told Xinhua.


He said he expected to see further increase in the exports of Egyptian agricultural products to China in the future. "We help Egyptians improve the quality of products to reach our import standards and we expect to see more Egyptian agricultural products in the Chinese market," he said.


Maghrabi Agriculture (MAFA), one of Egyptian citrus farms approved for exports to China Cheap Brandon Roy Jersey , exported 2,500 tons of oranges to the world's most populous country last year.