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Egypt: Using satellites to determine the areas of farms

Egypt
Published Nov 30, 2021

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The Ministry of Agriculture announced the continuation of implementing the new system for coding farms and export entities in full, after the increase in the volume of Egyptian agricultural exports during the period from January 2021 until now to about 5.2 million tons of agricultural products, an increase of 600 thousand tons over the same period last year. For his part, Dr. Ahmed Al-Attar, head of the Central Department of Agricultural Quarantine at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the actual start of implementing a new system for tracking agricultural exports, which depends on the gradual coding of all export farms according to the export season for each crop and according to the priority of important export crops. It is currently applied to citrus, strawberry and pepper farms. and guava, pointing out that the new system ensures that farms apply good agricultural practices and adhere to all requirements of importing countries and apply international phytosanitary ...
Source: Akhbarelyom
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