Cotton exports reach LE2b. in 2002/2003

Egypt has signed contracts to export cotton worth LE2 billion for the period from September 2002 to August 2003, Minister of Supply and Home Trade Hassan Khedr declared yesterday.

ÊÊÊ He highlighted that in early July a new ministerial decreewill be issued by the Ministers of Agriculture, Supply, Home and Foreign Trade, and Public and Private Enterprise Sector to organize marketing of cotton in overseas markets.