Rusia: Russia partially lifts ban on potato exports from egypt

The decision to partially lift restrictions came after

Egyptian officials submitted test results requested by Moscow

from some farms from which Russia had been receiving shipments,

the statement said.

Russian authorities were "assured of the safety of the

cultivation and export procedures of Egyptian potatoes and its

quality, which meet the requirements of the Russian and

International Sanitary and Phytosanitary standards," the

statement said.

Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, rejected a

Russian wheat cargo for excessive levels of the common grain

fungus ergot last week.

The rejected cargo was the fourth shipment to be halted in

recent weeks, though the first to be held up for ergot. The

cargoes amount to about 250,000 tonnes of grains that GASC may

now have to tap world markets for.

Russia suspended imports of fruit and vegetables from Egypt

in 2016 after Egyptian quarantine inspectors rejected a

60,000-tonne Russian wheat shipment due to problems related to

Cairo’s policy over the ergot fungus.

(Reporting by Amina Ismail

Editing by Helen Popper)