“[White meat] emerges from the effect of increasing heat waves on the tomato’s growth,” the ministry claimed. It added that the phenomenon would disappear around mid-September.
On Monday, the World Bank offered the Ministry of Agriculture a flexible loan of $ 500 million, intended to develop irrigation fields and value chains for vegetables, fruits, medical and aromatic plants, and flowers.
Egyptindependent.com reports that Minister Ezz El-Din Abu Steit received the offer in a meeting to discuss joint agricultural projects. He claimed that the projects discussed in the meeting would increase Egypt’s annual agricultural exports to $12 billion, compared to $5 billion in 2017-2018.