As a giant sugarbeet harvester powered through the vast farmland in the desert west of Minya province in southern Egypt, dozens of trucks were busy loading the harvested beets and transporting them to a processing factory about 40 km down the road.
“We’re now quite happy with the amount of sugar that we get out of our beets. This will be our second year and we’ve seen about a 50-percent increase in yield over last year, so we feel that we’ve got a very good model and we’re able to create a crop that can feed the factory,” said Aaron Baldwin, agriculture general manager of Canal Sugar, a 1-billion-U.S.-dollar joint venture between Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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