Cairo – Mubasher: Egypt aims to increase its date exports to $100 million over the coming four years, the Deputy Executive Director of the Egyptian Food Export Council, Tameem El-Dawy, was cited by the Middle East News Agency (MENA). 

On the sidelines of the first Egyptian marketing forum for dates in the city of Kharga, El-Dawy revealed that exports of dates increased to about 44,000 tonnes at a value of $43 million in 2020, compared to 39,000 tonnes worth $42.5 million a year earlier. 

In the January-August period of 2021, the exports of dates amounted to nearly 21,000 tonnes at a value of $22 million, of which $8.11 million worth of exports were directed to Indonesia and $11.3 million to Morocco. 

Egypt's total production of dates reaches about 1.7 million tonnes per day, El-Dawy added.