Egyptian farmers have signed a lucrative contract with Delta Sugar: the farmers in the new season sow about 50,000 hectares of land with sugar beet, and the commercial company in turn receives large deliveries of vegetables at a favorable price.
"Last year, we sowed 8,000 hectares of beets less than we would have in the coming season," farmers say, adding that growing sugar is more profitable than, for example, growing reeds, which were previously planted as much as possible.
“The fact is that we take water for irrigation from the Nile River,” the agrarians of Egypt say. “And reed requires intensive moisture. At the same time, beets consume water more economically, but produce generous yields and are valued no less than reeds.
In the near future, farmers plan to intelligently distribute sugar beet and cane crops throughout the country. In the meantime, in the areas adjacent to the Nile Delta, plan to plant the maximum amount of beet culture. In the near season, Egyptian agrarians intend to produce about 1.3 million tons of sugar from beets and a million tons of sugar from cane.
