Egypt: The Minister of Agriculture discusses with the Director of the International Dates Council joint cooperation

Alaa Farouk, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, received Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Habib, Executive Director of the International Date Council, and his accompanying delegation. The two sides discussed joint cooperation and maximizing the benefit from the Egyptian and Arab wealth of palm trees and dates at the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture in the New Administrative Capital. The meeting was attended by Dr. Saad Moussa, Supervisor of External Agricultural Relations at the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Ezz El-Din Gad Allah, Director of the Central Laboratory for Palm Research, and some leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and the International Date Council. Farouk stressed Egypt's aspiration to enhance cooperation with the Council, especially since the Arab Republic of Egypt is one of the largest date-producing countries in the world, but manufacturing and exporting are not up to our ambitions and production volume, pointing out that the added value of the national ...