FAO launches the strategy for developing the palm cultivation and date production sector in Egypt 2024-2029

Today, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched a strategy for developing the palm cultivation and date production sector in the Arab Republic of Egypt, in cooperation with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, represented by the Central Palm Research Laboratory. The development of this strategy came based on an official request from the Ministry of Trade and Industry to the office of the representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Egypt to assist in updating the national strategy for the palm and date sector by contracting with an international expert. This developed strategy comes five years after the issuance of the strategy for developing the palm and date sector in Egypt (2016 - 2022), which was developed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization, where the methodology used to update the strategy ...