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EGYPT WANTS TO IMPORT 12,000 TONNES OF UKRAINIAN POULTRY – MINISTER

25 August , 2015  

KYIV. Aug 25 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Egypt wants to import 12,000 tonnes of Ukrainian poultry, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Pavlenko has said.

“Today we’ve received an offer to export 12,000 tonnes of poultry to Egypt,” Pavlenko said at a meeting with agricultural traders in Kyiv region on Friday.

He said that agreements were reached during his working visit to Egypt on August 5 through August 7, 2015. During his visit, Pavlenko met Minister of Agriculture and land Reclamation of Egypt Salah El-Din Helal.

As reported, PJSC Berezan poultry farm (Kyiv region) and PJSC Avis agrofirm (Khmelnytsky region), which are under the control of Avangard agroholding, have received a permit to export shell eggs to Israel.