Rusia: Russia partially lifts ban on potato exports from egypt
CAIRO, - Russia has agreed to ease a ban on potato exports from eight farming areas in Egypt, allowing shipments to resume from June 6, Egyptian Trade Minister Tarek Kabil said in a statement on Saturday.
The decision to partially lift restrictions came after
Egyptian officials submitted test results requested by Moscow
from some farms from which Russia had been receiving shipments,
the statement said.
Russian authorities were "assured of the safety of the
cultivation and export procedures of Egyptian potatoes and its
quality, which meet the requirements of the Russian and
International Sanitary and Phytosanitary standards," the
statement said.
Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, rejected a
Russian wheat cargo for excessive levels of the common grain
fungus ergot last week.
The rejected cargo was the fourth shipment to be halted in
recent weeks, though the first to be held up for ergot. The
cargoes amount to about 250,000 tonnes of grains that GASC may
now have to tap world markets for.
Russia suspended imports of fruit and vegetables from Egypt
in 2016 after Egyptian quarantine inspectors rejected a
60,000-tonne Russian wheat shipment due to problems related to
Cairo’s policy over the ergot fungus.
(Reporting by Amina Ismail
Editing by Helen Popper)
Fuente: https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/russia-partially-lifts-ban-on-potato-exports-from-egypt