Mr Khalil Mubarak, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture in Ismailia, reported that a total of 31,728 tonnes of fresh fruit, frozen vegetables, field crops and medicinal and aromatic plants were exported to Arab and European markets during October. The value of these shipments amounted to 2.23 million dollars.
Exports included products like peanuts, white beans, frozen vegetables, frozen strawberries, frozen okra, green beans, sliced mango, frozen guava or grape and orange juice.
The destinations for these products included Switzerland, Romania, Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Italy, Russia, Kuwait, Sudan and Poland.
Mubarak pointed out that the total export value of Ismailia's agricultural products between January and the end of October reached 241.76 million dollars; the volume of fresh fruit and vegetables, frozen produce, aromatic and medicinal plants and field crops exported during this period amounts to 2,759,433 tonnes.