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Jordan refused to allow the entry of 18 truckloads of “infected” Egyptian onions, around 700 tonnes, the country’s Assabeel newspaper reported a senior official saying.
Jordan’s Minister of Agriculture, Khalid Hneifat, said that the delivery was rejected after ministry staff found that it does not meet the “technical rule” of importing onions, noting that between 15 to 40 per cent of the onion were “infected”.
The items were sent back to their source country.
The paper also reported that a shipment of 25 tonnes of potatoes was also rejected.
This is a further blow to Egypt’s ailing economy which has suffered after the UAE, Russia and Sudan ceased the delivery of agricultural produce for some period due to the items being infected or not meeting import standards.