Sudan joins countries that intersection of agricultural products to Egypt

Sudan announced its entry into the list of countries that prohibit the import of agricultural products to Egypt after the United States and Russia and the UAE, and finally Sudan announced it Wednesday morning.

For its part, in the beginning of the crisis, denied the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture health of the rumors about the prevention of a number of Egyptian products from entering the United States, said he had not been issued a new US decisions relating to ban the import of food products, agricultural Egyptian and US documents confirm that some products It banned since 2009 and did not issue new decisions prohibiting any Egyptian product in the last two years.

Recently and it deliberated reports on the injury of a number of people infected with hepatitis C in the United States, referring to the information that the likely source of the virus is frozen strawberries imported from Egypt product.

The Ministry also issued a climate change and the environment in the UAE, a few days ago, a circular to tighten control procedures on frozen strawberries imported from Egypt, in order to avoid reaching any products contaminated or pose a risk to the consumer in the country.

Russia announced last Friday that it would suspend temporarily imports of fruit and vegetables from Egypt starting from Thursday, the Egyptian government was quick to send a committee of high-level technical negotiations with the Russian side on the current trade dispute with respect to agricultural commodities.

The Ministry of Commerce of Sudan on Wednesday morning, the decision to stop the import of vegetables and fruit and fish from Egypt temporarily, in the interest of the health and safety of humans and animals in Sudan.

The ministry noted that the decision will remain in force until the laboratory and the completion of laboratory tests to ensure safety, according to the agency.

A professor at Cairo University agricultural economist, Dr. Hamdi al-Batran, the past years have seen a complete change in the map and the quality of agricultural products to Egypt, due to the adoption of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture in the era of Dr. Youssef Wali, Minister of Agriculture in the era of former President Hosni Mubarak, the pesticides cause a large number of diseases, especially cancer.

He continued: "But there are many pesticides have been banned during the years after the January 2011 revolution, and became the Agricultural Ministry refuses to import the majority of pesticides that cause cancerous diseases."

He pointed out in his speech for the "Net", that this issue is not new but was raised recently by the refusal of the Ministry of Agriculture for shipments of infected wheat fungus Alarjot, prompting the direction of a large number of businessmen importers of wheat to raise this issue again.

He pointed out that the ban resolutions issued by the United States for some of the Egyptian agricultural products not made during the current year or the past but they were years ago, and therefore there is no justification to raise these issues at the moment.

He said that Russia when it suspended the import of agricultural products days or fruit from Egypt before, but directly back to Egypt's refusal to shipments of wheat, especially since Egypt is the largest importer of Russian wheat in the world, and perhaps the Russian government turned to it in the context of pressure on the Egyptian government to pass Russian wheat import.