Beet crops reduced due to low returns

The Agriculture Ministry has issued a decision to reduce the amount of land used to cultivate sugar beets to 3.6k feddans from 5k feddans in the 2019-2020 season, according to Al Mal. The ministry’s decision comes in response to oversupply in the market, which has already resulted in several farmers cultivating less of the crop, head of the ministry’s sugar crops council Mostafa Abdel Gawad tells the newspaper.