Chinese firms eye bumper harvest as agri-expo begins

The Chinese farm sector has the potential to grab a major share of the growing bilateral trade with the UAE, which is now dominated by manufactured goods and stands at US 15.6 billion in 2012.

Besides, the GCC states and other Arab countries, which spent more than US 200 billion between 1990 and 2008 on their farm imports, are an attractive market for competitively priced Chinese farm products, equipment and agri inputs.