An agricultural expert for the Voice of the Nation: Contract crops secure farms and strategic crops in Egypt

Published 2022년 6월 4일

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Egypt is implementing a contractual crop plan to ensure food security and reduce the impact of the global food crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. This plan, overseen by the Ministry of Agriculture, involves forming a Contractual Cultivation Center that makes contracts with farmers, providing seeds and fertilizers, and guaranteeing a fair price for strategic crops such as yellow corn, soybeans, fodder crops, sesame, and oil crops. The government is also conducting awareness-raising workshops for farmers and combating merchants who buy crops at low prices. This approach aims to achieve self-sufficiency in food crops and encourage farmers to grow strategic crops.

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Dr. Amin Hussein Awad, a senior researcher at the Agricultural Research Institute, confirmed that Egypt secures its food with a contractual crop plan in light of a crop crisis, explaining that last year the Minister of Agriculture issued Resolution 224 regarding the establishment of a contractual cultivation center after forming a full board of directors headed by Dr. Hoda Ragab. And he had several tasks, including making contracts with farmers, explaining and giving instructions. Awad continued, in his exclusive statements to “Sawt Al-Ummah”: These instructions include the advantages of contract farming with the provision of seeds and fertilizers, follow-up of crops throughout the season, and contracts for the supply and signs on it, pointing to the supply of its production through the Chairman of the Board of Directors and giving full powers, referring to the governorates that Produces fodder and oil crops while providing raw materials. The agricultural expert added that ...

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