Thursday 04/Sep/2025 – 11:25 am
The General Authority for Agricultural Reform revealed that it was completed during the month of August, from the purification of about 4919 wakes in various governorates, out of a total of 5560 waters, which is targeted, which represents an achievement rate of 88%, with the aim of improving irrigation efficiency and ensuring that water reaches the ends of the canals, which benefits the beneficiaries.
This comes according to an official report received by Alaa Farouk, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, from Eng. Mohamed Al -Khatib, Executive Director of the Authority, on the most prominent efforts and activities of the authority to support the beneficiaries during the month of August.
Al -Khatib pointed to the authority’s efforts to provide food commodities to citizens at reduced prices in response to the initiatives of the political leadership to raise the burden on the shoulders of the citizens and fight the high costs, noting that during August, about 19 caravans were launched, mobile outlets that included 143 cars, loaded with various food products from the production of the body’s stations projects, and include: table eggs, food commodities, dairy products, fish and meat, where they were released For citizens, at reduced prices, less than the markets in the markets range between 25 and 30%.
Including meat and poultry .. Agriculture: We held 143 animated outlets to sell food products with 30% discounts during August
He added that these caravans included 8 convoys with a total of 62 cars in the fields of Greater Cairo and the suburbs of Giza, in cooperation with the Arab Organization for Industrialization and “Long Live Egypt” cars, as well as 11 convoys with a total of 81 cars in the governorates of the lake, Kafr El -Sheikh, Dakahlia, Eastern and Alexandria, to provide table eggs at prices less than the market price of about 20%, from the production of agricultural reform stations of those directorates.
The Executive Director of the Authority affirmed the continuation of efforts to protect agricultural lands and state property and the development of the Egyptian countryside, where during August 89 cases of infringement of a total area exceeded 6 acres, most of which are removed cases in the cradle, before their exacerbation, with the aim of protecting the agricultural area and preventing any encroachments on them, pointing to the continuation of the authority’s efforts to support farmers, and to follow up the process of distributing and disbursing fertilizers to the beneficiaries, while providing all means of support To facilitate exchange operations on them, in addition to providing counseling and awareness services to farmers, and passing on crops to provide the necessary technical recommendations, with the aim of improving the quality of crops and increasing productivity.
Al -Khatib stressed the continuation of the efforts of the General Authority for Agricultural Reform to provide support to farmers and citizens alike, through the development and modernization of agricultural societies and the provision of their products through the fixed outlets spread in all directorates and the general office of the authority.
