Related Keywords: changing government policy, core of Egypt economy, Cotton growers, Egyptian cotton, end of subsidy, international cotton prices, shrinking domestic market, white gold, world market
Egyptian cotton, the so-called “white gold” a byword for luxury that is prominent the world over and also the former core of Egypt’s economy and the source of many a trader’s fortune has been declining for years due to changing government policy, a shrinking domestic market and the vagaries of international cotton prices.