CAIRO- Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to lift a ban on imports of Egyptian agricultural products, the Egyptian agriculture ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

A number of Gulf countries have banned Egyptian agricultural imports over the past year on concerns over pesticide residue.

(Reporting by Ehab Farouk; writing by Arwa Gaballa; editing by Jason Neely) ((arwa.gaballa@thomsonreuters.com; +20 2 2578 3290;))