Egypt‘s stone fruit season will begin at the end of March, two weeks before the Spanish season, giving Egypt an advantage for the UK market, writes Yzza Ibrahim for FreshPlaza. Good weather has enabled fruit producer Evagro to increase its production by 20% in the past couple of years. But Egypt has not capitalized on the fact that winter frost hit Spain and Italy hard, hindered by fixed contracts that prevented more exports to Europe. “The Egyptian government and the export council are currently surveying the use of pesticides by growers. Our products should be clean, if we want to impress the European market,” says Evagro’s Emad El Din Ahmed.