Egypt's cotton exports up by 41.2%

Egyptian cotton exports have risen by 41.2 per, reaching 688,000 metric quintals during the first nine months of the current agricultural season, the state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced yesterday.

Egypt’s agricultural season starts early September and lasts until the end of August of the following year.

According to the CAPMAS official data, the country’s cotton exports amounted to 487,000 metric quintals during the same period of the previous agricultural season.

The metric quintal is equivalent to around 157 kilograms.

The Egyptian government recently announced that it had expanded the country’s cotton cultivation area by 46 per cent to reach 322,000 acres, up from 222,000 acres in 2017.

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