Agriculture in egypt

 

Egyptian linked to the Nile River since ancient times .. As an inducement life on their land .. On the banks of the river discovered the great Egyptian agriculture, and learned the planting and breeding domesticated animals, and succeeded in establishing civilizations that the world has ever known, and Egypt and the culture associated with agriculture, invented the Egyptian agricultural machinery and irrigation equipment, and those who filmed the Egyptian agricultural operations of tilling and harvesting Laurie and storage on the walls of synagogues and placed the basis of Agricultural calendar, Egypt was the first country where agriculture was organized dates. Continued agricultural activity is a cornerstone of civilization and the economy through successive historical ages, in an era of Ptolemy widened area of farmland and crops grown and diversified meant kings Ptolemy affairs of irrigation and water use planning the construction of canals and channels and bridges, digging wells in the desert. 

Islamic era saw the construction of large canals and bridges, viaducts and the establishment of standards for Neil, land reclamation, and Alasralosmani Egypt witnessed a revolution in agriculture, irrigation, with several new major irrigation projects such as Riyahat and canals, bridges, reservoirs, resulting in the provision of water for a large portion of Agricultural land to the permanent irrigation system and increase the agricultural area, which is the most important project in this period Spans charitable establishment in 1861, digging and wind Bheiri Altoviqioualemnovi and hundreds of canals and the creation of the Aswan Reservoir in 1902) was Talith twice (and the establishment of barrages in Esna in 1908, and Guenatrndja Hammadi In 1930, resulting in the implementation of these projects increase the area of agricultural land of 2 million acres in 1813 to about 5 million acres in the early fifties of the twentieth century. 
 

With the revolution of July 1952 Egypt took its first steps on the path of giant irrigation projects, the dam project was higher is the greatest engineering projects, construction, which has been in Egypt during the last century, the greatest achievement of Egypt in the modern history of this project is a turning point in the history of Egyptian Agriculture and the beginning The start of modern Egyptian industry, and in storage since the start of the High Dam Lake in 1964 that giant project succeeded in achieving water security for Egypt, contributed to the expansion of agricultural development projects of 5.2 million acres in the fifties, to 5.8 million acres in the seventies. 

Continued agricultural development, bringing the annual growth rate of agricultural average of 2.6% in the eighties to 3.4% in Altsaiinat, up to 3.6% in 2006/2007, as an area of agricultural land increased by about 2.3 million acres during this period, Egypt began to agricultural expansion projects Giant that contribute to the addition of 1.4 million acres in the area populated increase of 5.5% of Egypt's area to 25%, and in redrawing the map of population after the creation of new urban communities deep in the desert regions of Egypt are attracting population for providing new jobs. 

Agricultural Policy 
The adoption of agricultural policies in Egypt to support the decision makers of agricultural policies and the provision of the most important monuments, economic and statistical research, extension and development of a network linked to agricultural research and agricultural guidance systems expert, as well as the development of IT infrastructure of the agriculture sector to serve agricultural policy in Egypt. 

Agriculture and national economy: a valley in the southern Toshka where it is cultivating 
The agriculture sector is one of the key sectors actively in the Egyptian national economy, it contributes approximately 13.4% of the gross domestic product, as the value of agricultural output (at current rates) for the 2006 / 2007 about 90.1 billion pounds, while the value of agricultural production amounted to about 116 billion pounds The value of agricultural exports about 900 million dollars during the same year.

 

 

 

 

 

The latest economic report issued by the International Cotton Exchange Beremen German, Egyptian cotton to cleaner types of raw cotton, the World completely free of contaminants and residues of pesticides and heavy metals, in accordance with the standards of first-class products (known as Eco Tex 100), a sign placed on Textiles, which are that they are free of toxic substances. 

The engineer Tharwat Almnyaoy chief of Arbitration and Cotton Testing in Alexandria, said that future contracts were registered on the Egyptian cotton for the new season (2008/2009) amounted to 179 thousand and 780 pound of cotton lint, of which 11,700 quintals of item (Giza 70) and 8150 pound of item (short 88) and 85 thousand and 80 pound of item (a short 86) and 1000 quintals of item (a short 87) and 500 quintals of item (a short 89). 

The Almnyaoy that the total amount of cotton, which was handed over to local spinneries cotton season, reached 850 thousand pound, 39, received spinneries business year at 40.52%, while the private sector spinneries received 59.48% of the proportion of that amount. 

In a related development .. The weekly report of the Arbitration and Cotton Testing in Alexandria, the Egyptian exports to Britain from garments, valued at 63.4 million pounds during the first half of 2008, compared to about 57.8 million pounds during the same period in 2007. 

The value of Egyptian exports of textiles to Britain, during the same period this year, about 10 million pounds .. The Egyptian exports to Poland increased markedly during the first half of this year, to $ 34.39 million against $ 25.78 million dollars in 2007.

 

 

Rtbt Egyptian Nile River since ancient times, been associated with Egypt and its civilization agriculture, invented the ancient Egyptian agricultural machinery and irrigation equipment, and those who filmed the Egyptian agricultural operations of tilling and harvesting Laurie and storage on the walls of synagogues, and placed the basis of the agricultural calendar, Egypt was the first country where agriculture was organized dates.

The owners of the ancient irrigation oldest school in history, where they set the rules on the basis of basin irrigation engineering minutes, and built dams and canals they cut and set up networks of irrigation water distribution and storage, Create standards for determining the Nile water and assess taxes, on the basis of calculation used high-precision, and was thus Agricultural credit activity in the progress of the ancient Egyptians in the fields of astronomy and mathematics, statistics and space.

Continued agricultural activity is a cornerstone of civilization and the economy through successive historical ages, in an era of Ptolemy widened area of agricultural land and cultivated diverse crops meant King Ptolemy affairs of irrigation and water use planning the construction of canals and channels and bridges, digging wells in the desert.

It also made the Islamic era in Egypt continued progress in the area of agriculture, land reclamation has been, and continued attention to the cultivation of grain and introduced the cultivation of rice, maize, pulses and spread the cultivation of cotton cultivation, which flourished in Egypt.

Since the revolution of July 1952 and even now continue to pay attention to the agricultural sector and to the development of this important sector, identified Egypt giant irrigation projects have been initiated to establish the High Dam in 1960. This has contributed to the project in achieving water security for Egypt, allowing the implementation of development projects and increase horizontal agricultural area continuously.

2007 saw the implementation of the modernization of agriculture preliminary steps to transfer to the private sector is managed in accordance with free market mechanisms under the program of economic liberalization carried out by Egypt now .. Where the Ministry of Agriculture in the implementation of several measures, including expanded use of agricultural technology implementation of the program laser settlement of agricultural land to maximize the value added, estimated at about 315 million pounds due to irregular distribution of seeds, which led to success in agricultural growth rate To 4.1% annually.

The march continued agricultural development, bringing the annual growth rate of agricultural average of 2.6% in the eighties to 3.4% in the nineties, up to 3.97% in the third millennium, as an area of agricultural land increased by about 2.3 million acres during this period, Egypt began to agricultural expansion projects Giant that contribute to the addition of 1.3 million acres in the area populated increase of 5.5% of Egypt's area to 25%, and in redrawing the map of population after the creation of new urban communities in the depths of the Egyptian Desert, is attracting the population for providing new jobs.

The agricultural sector is about 30% of the total labor force and contributes about 14.8% of the gross domestic product, agricultural exports contribute about 20% of the total commodity exports, which makes the agricultural sector one of the important resources of national income.
State adopted supportive policies to create an attractive environment and encouraging agricultural investment, and facilitation of the most important investors in the newly reclaimed land to provide the infrastructure of the areas reserved for them water for irrigation, roads, services and facilities, in addition to providing lines of credit at an affordable cost, with tax exemption for several years to reach Areas of marginal productivity depending on the nature of each region.

Agriculture in Egypt is divided into three seasons is the agricultural season and the summer season, and indigo season, as well as sustainable agriculture or annual production season, which extends to the whole agricultural year or several years, such as sugar cane harvest crops and fruit trees and timber.

If the area of agriculture in Egypt is 8.5 million acres, or about 3.5% of the total area of Egypt, the agricultural development projects that contributed to the vertical space cropping up to 15.2 million feddans in 2007. Egypt has begun the implementation of long-term plan to add about 3.4 million acres of new land reclaimed until 2017, in the framework of the plan is added 150 thousand new acres each year to agricultural area.

 

Giant agricultural projects:

Egypt started to implement a series of giant agricultural projects spread to cover all parts of the country and achieve the objectives of balanced development between the regions of Egypt and the Egyptian desert storm into the deep to create a new urban communities have all viable infrastructure, facilities and services.

2007 saw the announcement of funding a project to reclaim 255 acres of West Nubariya A cost of $ 500 million over three years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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