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On April 11, 2020, Egypt’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) issued Decree No. 209/2020.

On March 26, 2020, Egypt’s National Food Safety Authority (NFSA) issued Resolution No. 3/2020.

Turkey's food sector is diverse and growing, after a brief period of recession in 2018. Effects of COVID19 are yet to be seen; however, currently the food processing industry appears to be meeting...

Sugar beet production and planting area is forecast at 19.2 million metric tons (MMT) and 320,000 hectares (ha) in Marketing Year (MY) 2020/21, assuming favorable growing conditions similar to last...

The Office of Agriculture Affairs (Post) forecasts refined sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2020/21 to increase by approximately 1.5 percent or 40,000 metric tons (MT) to reach 2.78 million...

Turkey experienced a winter drought this year. The MY 2020/21 wheat production forecast estimate is 18 million metric tons (MMT), with an increase in planting area.

In market year (MY) 2020/21, cotton area harvested is forecast to drop by almost 35 percent to 65,000 hectares (ha), from 100,000 ha in MY 2019/20.

In 2020, chicken meat production in Turkey is expected to grow 2 percent to 2.2 million metric tons (MT).

As part of a new regulation to track certain agricultural and food commodity imports, including tree nuts, Turkey’s Ministry of Trade requires importers of these commodities to register each import...

Egypt imported some $6.3 billion worth of food ingredients in 2019, up about $100 million compared to imports in 2018

On February 23-24, 2020, FAS/Cairo along with the North Dakota Trade Office coordinated the visit of pulses suppliers to Egypt to market U.S. peas, lentils, chickpeas, and dry edible beans.

Egypt’s soybean imports in marketing year (MY) 2020/21 (October-September) are forecast at 3.8 million metric tons (MMT), up 100,000 MT from the MY 2019/20 estimate.