Minister of Agriculture: Efforts to achieve food security depends on an integrated strategy that includes all aspects of production
The Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Alaa Farouk, stressed that the Ministry’s efforts to achieve food security in the livestock sector come at the top of its priorities … noting that these efforts depend on an integrated strategy that includes all aspects of production of financial and technical support for educators, providing feed, and genetic improvement, leading to ensuring the quality of the product The final.
& nbsp; The minister said that there are great efforts made to develop the infrastructure of the livestock sector, such as developing dairy centers and using accurate databases to number live wealth; Which contributes to increasing productivity and achieving positive growth rates .. Pointing out that these efforts come in close cooperation between the national government agencies and the private sector, which is a key partner in development efforts, in addition to livestock educators, especially the young of them, which is in line with the plans and efforts of the Egyptian state to achieve sustainable development. In Egypt, it is the cornerstone of the achievement of food security and the development of this important sector, noting that the Ministry’s strategy included providing all aspects of technical, financial and logistical support, with the aim of increasing production, improving the economic return, and raising the per capita animal protein, as well as to provide a cup of secure milk. In Research Institutes: Animal Production, Sera and Veterinary Vaccines, Animal Health, Animal Hymns, the Regional Food and Feed Center, and the central laboratory for controlling veterinary preparations, as well as the Public Authority for Veterinary Services, the Ministry succeeded in making a great way in the development and advancement of the livestock sector in Egypt, through many important axes. The financing initiatives are at the forefront of the priorities of the support provided by the Egyptian state to this sector, as the Central Bank of Egypt provided easy loans with a decrease in 5% for livestock projects under presidential directives, where the national project for the Letlo, both local and imported, comes at the top of these initiatives, which succeeded in financing more than 10 billion and 53 million pounds, benefiting 45.1 thousand beneficiaries of young people and small educators; Which allowed them to breed and fatten about 522 thousand livestock, whether it is calves to produce meat or high -generation wheels of dairy or dual animals. Feed materials such as corn and soy and their additions, as well as increasing local production, as well as expanding contractual crops and increasing the spaces planted with fodder crops, while providing technical and encouraging support to farmers, in addition to implementing extensive training programs for farmers and educators on how to create relationships through applied seminars and workshops. Forestry at the Agricultural Research Center and the Desert Research Center to increase its productivity and reduce its water and time needs, as well as deduction of non -traditional feed varieties that bear salinity and can be planted in marginal lands without competing with strategic crops, in addition to exploiting agricultural waste and converting them into high -value feed by raising their nutritional efficiency, and recording many of the feed mixtures that contain them, in addition to Encouraging investment in the feed industry and simplifying licensing procedures and accurate follow -up to ensure the quality of products at competitive prices, as these measures have contributed to the decline and stability of feed prices during the past two years; Which encouraged investment and increased the production of meat and dairy. About 1.3 million heads in 2020 to 1.53 million heads in 2024, an increase of 18%, which is a direct result of the facilities package provided by the Ministry to encourage buffalo raising and work to improve it, while providing soft loans to finance education, care and nutrition operations, which helped educators to develop their projects. It is affiliated with the Ministry, and the Egyptian Association of the Egyptian Ramos was established in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture to provide an integrated guidance and awareness system to serve the buffalo jam and the advancement of its productivity. A kilogram of the improved buffalo for 5 kilograms for a non -benefactor .. Pointing out that with regard to Egyptian cows, the Ministry has global artificial vaccination centers that produce millions of semen censorship from highly productive breeds, and that thanks to mixing and crossbreeding programs, genetically improved strains produce about 20 kilograms of dairy per day, compared to only 7 kilograms of breeds Local. Needs. An electronic for evaluating and pricing dairy, according to international standards. Assembly centers at competitive prices, to encourage centers owners.
The Public Authority for Veterinary Services at the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation has taken important steps to achieve the maximum benefit from livestock, including: numbering and registration of livestock heads using plastic numbers that are compatible with global protocols, as well as providing accurate databases that support the right decisions in time, in addition To free veterinary convoys, awareness and guidance seminars, raising the efficiency of veterinary units, artificial insemination points, fortifications of fortifications, provision of vaccines and veterinary vaccines. And vital safety, as all of these efforts contributed to improving the rates of livestock performance and increasing productivity. This confirms that the Egyptian state is moving steadily towards achieving a comprehensive renaissance and real development in the livestock sector.
