El Sayed El Quseir
These endeavors are part of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation's ongoing efforts to broaden the scope of Egyptian agricultural exports.
Despite the challenges posed by global and regional conditions that affect supply chains and the Egyptian government's decision to stop exporting some agricultural products to support the local market, the country's agricultural exports witnessed a healthy increase.
Minister of Tourism Ahmed Eissa and Minister of Agriculture El Sayed El-Quseir joined a closed session of the National Dialogue on Monday to discuss the challenges confronting production and exportation.
Egypt hosted the meeting of the general assembly of ACSAD, which was held via video conference, a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture read on Wednesday.
So far, Egypt has collected around 3,740,000 tons of local wheat from farmers during the ongoing wheat season.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ordered on Saturday continued coordination among relevant authorities to monitor cases of encroachment on agricultural lands and take strict procedures to face them.
Quseir discussed on Wednesday with his Malawian counterpart Lobin Lowe means to boost agricultural cooperation between the two countries.
This came in a weekly report handed over to Quseir by head of the Central Administration of Plant Quarantine (CAPQ) ِAhmed el Attar.
