Challenges of the national program for the production of vegetable seeds to confront the global monopoly market in Egypt

Published 2023년 6월 7일

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The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture is working to reduce reliance on imports and decrease the dominance of international companies in the agricultural sector by registering local vegetable varieties and hybrids. The Horticultural Research Institute's National Program for Vegetable Seed Production has successfully registered 26 varieties and hybrids for 11 crops, with plans to add five more. This initiative is expected to save Egypt $4 billion annually by reducing imports of seeds, currently amounting to $1.5 billion annually or 646 thousand tons. The program is receiving support from both political leaders and international companies to provide high-quality, competitively priced seeds to Egyptian farmers.
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Written by: Talaat Al-Tarabishy Acting as a commercial partner, reducing imports by 2 billion pounds, and registering 26 hybrids The speed differences between the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and many countries in the world that produce agricultural production requirements are not equal. And there is still a long way to go in the marathon of producing pesticides, vegetable seeds, and other things - even if - we were at the beginning of the road "crawling" in the stages of experimentation. The important thing is that we start, and take advantage of half-opportunities, to compensate for the differences in expertise, material and technological capabilities, which are mostly in the interest of the country that owns the "multi-national" companies that cross the continents. Monopolies of international companies With these challenges, the experiments conducted by the Horticultural Research Institute came as "as desired". The production indicators seem promising and encouraging to ...

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