Egypt: We currently have 60 varieties of seeds and hybrids for strategic crops

Published 2024년 12월 10일

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Egypt's Minister of Agriculture, Alaa Farouk, highlighted the country's resilience in providing food security during crises like the Corona pandemic, the Russian-Ukrainian war, and climate change. The government's efforts include investing in agricultural development and creating triple treatment plants for agricultural drainage water for irrigation. Additionally, the ministry is encouraging the development of new, high-productivity, low-water requirement varieties of crops and expanding contractual farming agreements. The Minister also emphasized the support for farmers and small agricultural producers through easy financing initiatives, in line with digital transformation and logistical and marketing system development for agricultural products.

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Alaa Farouk, Minister of Agriculture, said that proactive agricultural development projects were implemented during previous crises such as Corona, the Russian-Ukrainian war, and climate change, which enabled the Egyptian state to provide safe, healthy, and sustainable food security for its people at a time when many countries suffered from a crisis and confusion in supply chains and a lack of food security. The government also spent billions of pounds on establishing triple treatment plants for agricultural drainage water to provide irrigation water, the most important of which are (Bahr El-Baqar station with a capacity of 5.6 million m3/day - El-Mahsama station with a capacity of 1.2 million m3/day - New Delta station with a capacity of 7.5 million m3/day), in addition to applying modern agricultural practices to rationalize water use by applying modern irrigation systems and developing field irrigation. This came during his speech at the first roundtable event in the field of ...

Source: Almalnews