The Prime Minister continues efforts to localize the silk industry in Egypt

& Nbsp; Prime Minister Dr. Mustafa Madbouly, the Ministries of Agriculture and Local Development, directed a clear vision of the state’s needs of silk, to ensure the provision of what the carpet industry needs, provided that the state provides the required support. The Minister of Local Development, Aladdin Farouk, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Major General Mohamed Zamalout, Governor of the New Valley, and Basil Rahmi, CEO of the Medium, Small and Micro Enterprise Development Agency, and a number of ministries and concerned authorities. The executive of the Natural Silk Production Initiative, until May 2025, explaining that the number of equipped laboratories reaches 32 factories, and the cultivated area reaches about 344 acres and 14 agricultural greenhouse, and 25 projects are implemented in this framework. Graduate and small farmers, in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, as well as cooperation with the World Food Organization (FAO) to implement training programs and cultivating 31 thousand berries, and displaying examples of existing projects in the governorate to produce natural silk, stressing the concerted efforts between the new valley and various government agencies and the private sector to make this initiative successful and achieve its goals in supporting efforts Development.

& nbsp; Preparing the proposal for the executive plan to localize the silk industry in Egypt through the Ministry of Local Development in cooperation with a number of relevant ministries, namely: agriculture and industry, the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency, representatives of the targeted governorates, research agencies and representatives of civil society institutions. Strategy to localize the silk industry in Egypt through the methodology of developing blocs that depend on a group of axes, most notably: the development of the methods of cultivating berries, and developing the methods of breeding silk worm and methods of silk solution and marketing marketing for various products, as well as supporting the work environment within silk production blocs.

& nbsp; Natural Silk Production Centers in cooperation with the relevant ministries, the medium and small projects development agency and the Egyptian private sector. On an area of 77 acres, in addition to technical cooperation with Nidaa Foundation to implement a development production project within the scope of the tree forest to provide 8108 job opportunities. & Nbsp;

& nbsp; Natural represents about 65% of the total global production of silk for commercial purposes.

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