Sunday 06/April/2025 – 05:15 PM
The Agriculture and Irrigation Committee of the Senate discussed, during its meeting on Sunday evening, headed by Representative Jamal Aboul Fotouh, the committee’s deputy, the subject of the warranty price system for agricultural crops.
The cultivation of the elders recommends announcing the price of guarantee for strategic crops before cultivating them sufficiently
Representative Jamal Abu Al -Fotouh explained that the issue of the security price system for agricultural crops is one of the important topics adopted by the committee, as it protects farmers from losses, by ensuring the minimum prices.
He also stressed the importance of the cabinet decision regarding the determination of the prices of supplying strategic crops for the year 2024/2025: The price of the warranty is a ton of sugar cane 2500 pounds.
Representative Mohamed El Sebaei was supported by the committee’s undersecretary, noting that the announcement of early guarantee prices encourages farmers to grow crops, especially the strategy.
Activating the contractual agriculture system
While Dr. Hoda Ragab, Director of the Disabled Policies Center, reviewed the supportive policies and procedures carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in activating the contractual agriculture system, the most important of which is to announce guarantee prices for strategic crops and early before agriculture, provided that the receipt of the prices circulated at the time of delivery in a way that motivates the farms and farmers to expand the cultivation of these crops.
Juma Eid Saber, a researcher in the state’s general budget sector, explained that the Ministry of Finance is specialized in providing the necessary financial credits to encourage the cultivation of wheat crop, given that it is an important strategic crop, noting that there are many important strategic crops that must be promoted such as wheat.
At the end of the meeting, the members of the committee recommended working to determine guiding prices to receive strategic crops, sufficiently before the date of cultivation, and in a manner that contributes to the continued encouragement of the cultivation of these important strategic crops, which contributes to reducing the import gap from those crops and providing the difficult currency to the country, as well as increasing productivity, providing support for farmers and paying attention to strategic agricultural crops, and working to increase productivity For farmers, in a way that contributes to increasing their entry, as well as ensuring that agricultural production and cultivated crops are economic feasibility for farmers and farms, and involving agricultural cooperatives in pricing.
