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The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics issued the annual bulletin of crop areas and production statistics in 2017/2018, as the total crop area reached 16.1 million feddans in 2017/2018 compared to 16 million feddans in 2016/2017, with an increase of 0.1%.

The total cultivated area reached 9.2 million feddans in 2017/2018, compared to 9.1 million feddans in 2016/2017, with an increase of 0.6%. And the wheat crop area recorded 3.2 million feddans in 2017/2018, compared to 2.9 million feddans in 2016/2017, an increase of 8%, and the production amount reached 8.3 million tons in 2017/18 compared to 8.4 million tons in 2016/2017, with a decrease of 0.9%.

The rice crop area reached 0.9 million feddans in 2017/2018 compared to 1.3 million feddans in 2016/2017, with a decrease of 34.3%, and the production amount reached 3.1 million tons in 2017/2018 compared to 5.0 million tons in 2016/2017, with a decrease of 37.0%.

The area of tomato crop recorded 416.0 thousand feddans in 2017/2018 compared to 395.6 thousand feddans in 2016/2017, with an increase of 5.2%, and the amount of production reached 6.8 million tons in 2017/2018 compared to 6.7 million tons in 2016/2017, with an increase of 0.7%.

Potato crop area reached 408.1 thousand feddans in 2017/2018, compared to 414.9 thousand feddans in 2016/2017 with a decrease of 1.6%, and the production amount reached 5.0 million tons in 2017/2018 compared to 4.8 million tons in 2016/2017, with an increase of 2.5%.

The fruitful area of the orange crop reached 296.5 thousand feddans in 2017/2018, compared to 306.9 thousand feddans in 2016/2017 with a decrease of 3.4% and the production amount reached 3.1 million tons in 2017/2018, compared to 3.1 million tons in 2016/2017, with a decrease of 2.0%.