Thursday 05/Jun/2025 – 10:10 AM
Alaa Farouk, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, revealed that the volume of financing for the national project to revive the veal exceeded 9.5 billion pounds so far, for more than 44.8 thousand beneficiaries, to raise and fatten more than 518 thousand livestock.
The Minister of Agriculture said that the Board of Directors of the National Project for the Revival of the Vitu, recently agreed to adopt an amount of 275 million and 885 thousand pounds, as a new financing in favor of 393 beneficiaries of small breeders and young graduates, with a total number of heads of 3929 head More than 518 thousand head of livestock, whether it is wheel to produce meat or high -productivity wheels for dairy generation, to provide more meat and dairy.
The National Project for the Vitlo
He pointed out that this comes within the framework of the presidential initiative, a decent life launched by President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi, to develop the Egyptian countryside and raise the level of small farmers and educators, pointing to the importance of this project to contribute to providing red meat in the market at a fair and appropriate price for both the producer and the consumer, in addition to the balance of prices in the markets, whether the live heads of livestock or the prices of red meat and milk.
The Minister of Agriculture explained that there are field follow -ups from specialized committees, which were formed from the livestock and poultry development sector and the General Authority for Veterinary Services in coordination with the directorates of agriculture and veterinary medicine at the level of the governorates of the Republic, to provide all aspects of veterinary and health support and care and study any problems facing beneficiaries on the ground and work to overcome them in its cradle.
For his part, Eng. Mustafa Al -Sayyad, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, stressed that inspectors are made for the barriers of beneficiaries by the Ministry of Agriculture and the funded bank (Egyptian agricultural or Al -Ahly), with the aim of ensuring that there is a suitable place and a sufficient space for education and accommodation, before approval of the funding, pointing out that as soon as the beneficiary receives the insurance in the insurance fund on the livestock in a reduced rate, to benefit from the services provided by the fund, And that is in the context of the support provided by the Ministry of Agriculture continuously.
For his part, Dr. Tariq Suleiman, Head of the Livestock and Poultry Development Sector, said that the national project for the Vitlo can be used by applying for the nearest agricultural administration or an Egyptian agricultural bank branch or an Egyptian private bank deployed at the level of the governorates and centers of the Republic, or by communicating with the livestock and poultry development sector on the numbers: (0220541463 – 0220541464).
