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Seasoned Monufiya farmer Namaat Abdel Aziz Barin shares a traditional cotton harvest song.
Seasoned Monufiya farmer Namaat Abdel Aziz Barin shares a traditional cotton harvest song.
Egypt’s cotton industry has been subject to a dizzying series of policy shifts this year, leaving both farmers and manufacturers concerned about the future of the fabled crop. The year…
“Egypt is known to the world for its quality long-staple cotton.” This line would resonate to almost all Egypt’s schoolchildren taught to take pride in their country’s agricultural wealth, marked…
Tarek Qabil, minister of trade and industry, has invited textile company Welspun India to open a factory in Egypt. In August of…
Once a key national export, Egypt’s internationally renowned long staple cotton industry continues to spiral.
The Cabinet decided on Monday to increase subsidies on local cotton. The government will now pay national factories LE350 for each quintal…
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