Egypt cooperates with companies from India and Brazil to produce seeds

Published 2023년 2월 28일

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Egypt's Ministry of Agriculture has launched a program to increase local vegetable seed production and reduce import reliance, which currently stands at over 95%. The program has led to the development of 26 varieties and hybrids of 10 main vegetable crops. The Ministry has also partnered with international seed producing companies to provide these varieties to farmers. Additionally, a national project has been initiated to modernize sugar cane cultivation methods through the establishment of two cane seedling stations in Aswan Governorate.

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The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. El-Koseir, affirmed that the Ministry has adopted a program for vegetable crop seed production under the directives of the political leadership in 2020, which aims to increase Egypt’s ability to provide vegetable seeds locally instead of importing more than 95% of vegetable seeds, also with the aim of reducing the burden on farms by making them available. At reasonable prices, while limiting imports from abroad, in order to save foreign exchange. This came during his speech at the symposium organized by the Faculty of Agriculture at Cairo University, in the presence of Dr. Sameh Abdel Salam, Dean of the Faculty, Dr. Saad Nassar, Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Iman Bakr, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University, Dr. Nader Noureddine, Professor of Lands and Water at the Faculty, and a number of leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Faculty and members Faculty of Cairo University. He added that the program ...

Source: Almalnews