{"id":23969,"date":"2025-12-10T13:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23969"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:51:21","slug":"egypt-saudi-revolutionize-harvesting-sugarcane-in-the-mea-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/egypt-saudi-revolutionize-harvesting-sugarcane-in-the-mea-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, Saudi revolutionize harvesting sugarcane in the MEA region \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Egypt and Saudi Arabia have entered a new chapter for harvesting sugarcane in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Egypt, it is a new double-harvester that will likely bring sugarcane cutting efficiency to 100%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A research on the journal&nbsp;<em>Scientific Reports<\/em>&nbsp;introduces the revolutionary machine, via an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agritechinsights.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/egypts-double-row-sugarcane-harvester-revolutionizes-farming-efficiency\/\"><u>Agritech Insights&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>story on December 7, 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aswan University\u2019s Engineering Department says its semiautomatic whole-stalk sugarcane harvester (SWSH) will be simultaneously cutting double rows spaced at 0.71-0.80 m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will accelerate the harvesting rate to 3 to 4.5 km per hour using only two cutters, at a cost of $4.42 a hectare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research leader Abdallah E. Elwakeel cited cost efficiency for farmers by recounting how the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/equipment-and-machinery\/tractors\/\"><u>&nbsp;harvesting equipment&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>will usher profitability and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development seems to clinch the case for the sugar industry of Egypt, which has achieved self-sufficiency this 2025-26 season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the current harvest year, farmers attained 2,500 Egyptian pounds ($52.48) a tonne, versus 3,000 pounds ($62.97) a tonne for sugar beets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-saudi-cultivates-the-temperate-southwest-region\"><strong>Saudi Cultivates the Temperate Southwest Region \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same week when Egypt was researching its seminal double row harvester, across the Red Sea a sugarcane oasis was bubbling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the temperate Najran area of southwestern Saudi Arabia, where farmers have recently drawn attention due to their production methods. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Saudi Press Agency via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulftrick.com\/news\/40830\"><u>Gulf Trick<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on December 7, 2025, Najran and surrounding areas of Jazan, Baha and Asir are making cultivation waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growers here have learned to patiently wait for eight months before harvesting their crop to raise its sugar yield.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They leave the crop fertilizer-free in the final 90 days and irrigation-free in the last three weeks to boost sweetness levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ibrahim Shakwan, a farmer from Najran told the press that he has seen his crop on 7.3 hectares turn a success.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shakwan finds productivity here as capable to meet emerging regional interest in cane due to its lucrativeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is true because high appetite for sugar and sweet products drives sales in the Gulf country. &nbsp;Saudi Arabia ranks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.helgilibrary.com\/indicators\/sugar-consumption-per-capita\/saudi-arabia\/\"><u>60<\/u><u><sup>th<\/sup><\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in global sugar consumption (2021), a relatively high position, according to the Helgi Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kingdom thus looks likely to emulate its regional neighbor Egypt as a production leader in the Middle East. This regional interest forms the topic of the following look at the sugarcane industries of these two nations of the MEA region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-saudi-arabia-s-and-egypt-s-mea-sugarcane-statistics\"><strong><br>Saudi Arabia\u2019s and Egypt\u2019s MEA Sugarcane\u00a0Statistics\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sugarcane is a major industry crop in North Africa and Western Asia, particularly Egypt and an emerging Saudi Arabia. Egypt ranks in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rankingroyals.com\/agriculture\/sugar-cane-production-by-country-top-92-countries\/\"><u>top 16<\/u><\/a>\u00a0global producers of the crop and 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0in Africa after South Africa. The North African nation has been producing at least 15 million tonnes of cane annually in the 2019-23 period. This is per the below\u00a0<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>FAOSTAT<\/u><\/a>\u2019s data interpretation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Harvest Total [tonnes]<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Harvested Area [Ha]<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>15,269,136<\/td><td>139,547<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>15,564,534<\/td><td>140,018<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>15,959,306<\/td><td>143,857<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>15,860,450<\/td><td>217,625<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:\u00a0<em>sugarcane production in Egypt, 2020-23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is sugarcane the chief sugar raw material in Egypt?<\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its prominence, sugarcane is not the chief source of sugar in Egypt. In the 2025-26 season,<a href=\"https:\/\/cairoscene.com\/Buzz\/Egypt-Achieves-Sugar-Self-Sufficiency-at-Over-3-Million-Tonnes-in-2025\"><u>&nbsp;2.5 million tonnes<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of sugar came from beets while 620,000 tonnes from cane.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of sugar processing, Egypt manages&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fas.usda.gov\/data\/egypt-sugar-annual-9\"><u>2.6 million tonnes<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;per annum, per a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)\u2019s 2024-25 projection. The processing capacity could be more but for the fact that cane farmers sometimes deliver their raw material to molasses\u2019 plants. According to the Ministry fo Agriculture &amp; Land Reclamation, the country&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cairoscene.com\/Buzz\/Egypt-Achieves-Sugar-Self-Sufficiency-at-Over-3-Million-Tonnes-in-2025\"><u>attained self-sufficiency<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in the 2025-26 season by producing some 3 million tonnes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How is the sugarcane industry of Saudi Arabia?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, might produce\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reportlinker.com\/clp\/country\/2131\/726409\"><u>15,200 tonnes<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of cane in 2026, according to a Report Linker forecast. This renders the country more of a consumer of sugarcane than a net producer, at position 28 among sugarcane-utilizing nations. Much of this utility goes to sugar: according to the Helgi Library, the country consumes up to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.helgilibrary.com\/indicators\/sugar-consumption-per-capita\/saudi-arabia\/\"><u>28.9 kg<\/u><\/a>\u00a0per person per year (2021) and as low as 5.97 kg per capita (1962). This effectively renders the KSA the 60<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0biggest sugar-consuming nation among 165 select nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt and Saudi Arabia have entered a new chapter for harvesting sugarcane in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. For Egypt, it is a new double-harvester that will likely bring sugarcane cutting efficiency to 100%.&nbsp; A research on the journal&nbsp;Scientific Reports&nbsp;introduces the revolutionary machine, via an&nbsp;Agritech Insights&nbsp;story on December 7, 2025.&nbsp; The Aswan University\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.3 (Yoast SEO v20.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Egypt, Saudi revolutionize harvesting sugarcane in the MEA region \u00a0 - Selina Wamucii | Food &amp; Agriculture News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/egypt-saudi-revolutionize-harvesting-sugarcane-in-the-mea-region\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egypt, Saudi revolutionize harvesting sugarcane in the MEA region \u00a0 - Selina Wamucii | Food &amp; Agriculture News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Egypt and Saudi Arabia have entered a new chapter for harvesting sugarcane in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. 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