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What is the production-consumption gap in edible oil in Egypt?

According to the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, the current production-consumption gap in edible oil is estimated to be 97% as the population is growing by around 1.5 million people annually (CAPMAS, 2014; El-Hamidi and Zaher, 2018).

Which vegetable oil is imported by Egypt?

Table 2: Quantities of various vegetable oils imported by Egypt from 2015 to 2018 in ton). It is clear that palm oil is the major oil imported by Egypt whereby it represents about 60% of total imported oils in 2018 while the quantity imported from corn oil is the least being about 3% in the same year.

How much oil does Egypt eat a year?

Currently, Egypt consumes about 2.5 million tons of edible oils annually. Only, about 48.5 thousand tons of this quantity is produced by oilseed extraction in local extraction plants. About half of this quantity is produced mainly from cottonseed produced as a byproduct of cotton ginning industry.

Can Egypt produce sunflower oil self-sufficiency?

Sunflower crop was introduced in Egypt in 1987, and the oil content of its seed ranges between 39 and 46% (The Arab league for Nutrition Industries, 2007 ). The Minister of Supply and Internal Trade indicates that Egypt will accomplish sunflower oil creation self-sufficiency by nurturing lands and refining edible oils in bordering Sudan.