Egypt's soybean imports will increase significantly

Introduction: [Egypt's soybean import will increase significantly] Ali Abdi, US agricultural counsellor in Egypt, recently predicted that Egypt's soybean import will increase significantly, because the country will build new soybean crushing facilities Egypt's annual oil seed crushing capacity is currently estimated at 1.2 million tons, but most of the crushing facilities are old A private company's plant in Alexandria has a total crushing capacity of 5000 tons per day and can process 800000 tons of soybean meal and 200000 tons of soybean oil each year Projects under construction in Egypt also include two smaller soybean and cottonseed crushing plants One is located in Alexandria, with a daily crushing capacity of 400 tons of soybeans or 250 tons of cottonseed The other is in the port city of damiata, with an annual crushing capacity of 400000 tons of soybeans, which is expected to be put into operation by the end of 2001 China feed industry information network 2ed