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

Published 2024년 2월 20일

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has initiated a strategy to enhance the palm cultivation and date production sector in Egypt. The strategy, developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, aims to increase the export value of dates to $250 million annually in the next five years and to $500 million within 10 years. It also seeks to reduce wastage of fresh dates to 15% and cut supply chain production costs by 20%. The plan includes recommendations on production, quality, marketing, packaging, manufacturing, and export of dates.

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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 ...

Source: Agricultureegypt