Agriculture
The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology signed a cooperation protocol.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi held a meeting Wednesday with ministers of agriculture and military production.
The government wants to increase agricultural exports in the current fiscal year to 6.75 million tons.
The crops that will be initially coded are pomegranates, beans, onions and grapes, among other crops planted in Upper Egyptian governorates.
Head of the Agricultural Association in Abij village at the Kafr El-Zayat city in Gharbiya Governorate A. H. committed suicide by taking aluminum phosphide tablets, fumigant for stored cereal grains.
The volume of agriculture exports declined 7.2 percent to hit 3.542 million tons during the reporting period, down from 3.818 million tons during the agriculture export season in 2018/2019.
The FAO has partnered with the Egyptian government and cooperatives to find ways to limit food losses caused by production surpluses and inefficient practices.
The diversity of the Egyptian economy contributed to overcoming the coronaviruscrisis, Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala Al-Saeed, said Sunday.
Egypt's exports of onion have recorded 273,312 tons since the beginning of the year until July 8.
Egypt has expanded the projects of joint farms with African countries over the past 6 years to contribute to sustainable development programs in Africa.
The ministry places among its priorities in the current stage coordination with international institutions and development partners to support the agricultural sector, given its role in providing food security in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
The returns of agricultural products exports increased by 20 percent in 2019 compared to 2009, and vegetable exports increased by 40 percent during this period.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi inaugurated on June 29, 2020 Sphinx Airport on Cairo-Alex Road and the New Administrative Capital airport via video-conference.
The fall armyworms are no less dangerous than the [novel] coronavirus pandemic, as it destroys more than 80 types of agricultural crops in Egypt.”
The IFAD estimated that the global remittances to developing countries could fall by US$110 billion in 2020 as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19.
The two ministers also discussed the priorities for implementing a mechanism for land reclamation under the new system.
The newly-allocated money aims at enhancing the state’s food security and rationalizing the food imports, amid the crisis of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic.
It is also interrelated with other sectors, such as the transport, storage, trade and transformative industries, the statement added.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation declared Monday that the initiative will be introduced in Damietta and Kafr Al Sheikh governorates.
Also, huge amounts of garbage were collected.