Potatoes are the world’s fourth largest food crop, following rice, wheat, and maize.
Building on our long traditions of growing the best potatoes in Egypt, Maba pledges to continue its efforts and commitment to being one of the premier growing, packaging and distributing companies in the country.
Maba is one of the pioneers in the importing potato seeds and exporting the produce to the EU and distribution around Egypt. We grow our own varieties using traditional and organic methods. A special field is totally dedicated to the testing of new potato varieties to ease the monitoring of the quality of the produce on Egyptian soil.
Potato plants grow to about 60 cm (24 inch) high, depending on the variety. They bear white, pink, red, blue, or purple flowers with yellow stamens. The tubers of varieties with white flowers generally have white skins, while those with colored flowers tend to have pinkish skins.
All our planting technique are GlobalGap certified. All Maba products are
handpicked and specially packaged, adhering to the strictest rules of safety and hygiene.
All seeds are imported from Agrico Holland Types of potatoes : Nov, dec, jan seeds for traders Feb to May harvest to exporting And for local trading… October
Arizona: Russia, Europe, Africa,gulf
• Characteristics: High yield, good storage quality, round shape, yellow
flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Excellent for frying (French fries, potato chips) due
to its high dry matter content, also suitable for processing into frozen
products.
Agria: export : EU
• Characteristics: Excellent taste, smooth skin, good for boiling, baking, and
roasting. Stores well.
o Culinary Uses: Versatile, performs well in a variety of dishes. Diamant: local market processing , French fries
• Characteristics: Round shape, yellow flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for frying, processing, and salads. Stores well.
Palace: local , processing ff , export Russia , gulf , Greece , africa
• Characteristics: Oval shape, yellow flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for boiling, baking, and roasting. Stores well.
Ditta: export Eu
• Characteristics: Long oval shape, white flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for boiling, baking, and roasting. Stores well.
Vogue:local , Greece
• Characteristics: Oval shape, yellow flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for boiling, baking, and roasting. Stores well.
Picasso: locaal
• Characteristics: Round shape, yellow flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for frying, processing, and salads. Stores well.
Napoleon: processing crisps
• Characteristics: Oval shape, yellow flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for boiling, baking, and roasting. Stores well.
Babylon: local , early processing ff
• Characteristics: Round shape, yellow flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for frying, processing, and salads. Stores well.
Paradiso:local
• Characteristics: Round shape, yellow flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for frying, processing, and salads. Stores well.
Spunta:
• Characteristics: Long oval shape, white flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for boiling, baking, and roasting. Stores well.
Hermes:
• Characteristics: Round shape, yellow flesh.
o Culinary Uses: Good for frying, processing, and salads. Stores well.