Egypt: Using satellites to determine the areas of farms

Published 2021년 11월 29일

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Egypt has increased its agricultural exports by 600 thousand tons to 5.2 million tons from January 2021 to now, and is exporting to over 160 countries. To ensure quality and adherence to import standards, the Ministry of Agriculture is implementing a new system to code farms and export entities. This system is currently used for citrus, strawberry, pepper, and guava farms, and will be expanded to other exports. The system aims to facilitate exports, support the national economy, and ensure that small exporters can code their farms for export. The article also details the top 12 agricultural exports in terms of volume, with fodder beet, grapes, and potatoes rounding out the top three.

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The Ministry of Agriculture announced the continuation of implementing the new system for coding farms and export entities in full, after the increase in the volume of Egyptian agricultural exports during the period from January 2021 until now to about 5.2 million tons of agricultural products, an increase of 600 thousand tons over the same period last year. For his part, Dr. Ahmed Al-Attar, head of the Central Department of Agricultural Quarantine at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the actual start of implementing a new system for tracking agricultural exports, which depends on the gradual coding of all export farms according to the export season for each crop and according to the priority of important export crops. It is currently applied to citrus, strawberry and pepper farms. and guava, pointing out that the new system ensures that farms apply good agricultural practices and adhere to all requirements of importing countries and apply international phytosanitary ...

Source: Akhbarelyom