Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian agriculture sector has contributed to 6.3% of the economic growth in the third quarter of the fiscal year 2018/2019, compared to 5.7% in the year-ago period, planning minister Hala El Said announced on Saturday.
The agriculture sector includes around 5.5 million workers, which account for 21.1% of the total workforce in Egypt, the minister added.
The government agenda for 2018-2022 comprises a set of goals and programmes for the development of the agriculture sector, including the increase of the agricultural GDP, which reached 3.5% in the first half of the current fiscal year, El Said revealed.
The planning ministry stated earlier that the Egyptian government was targeting a GDP of EGP 6.3 trillion ($366.56 billion) at current prices in the fiscal year 2019/2020.
