Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi directed the government to establish more factories for producing azote fertilizers, an essential input that affects agricultural production and food security.
This would serve the State’s strategic goal of improving quality of agriculture products, in parallel with expanding the area of cultivated land, the president added.
Sisi made the directives during a meeting with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation El Sayed el Quseir, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Mohamed Ayman Ashour, and Director General of the National Service Projects Organisation (NSPO) Walid Abu El-Magd.
Chairman of Nasr Company for Intermediate Chemicals Ehab Abdel Samea was also present at the meeting, which also tackled the progress made in a project to upgrade a veterinary scientific center for research and training at the Integrated Livestock and Dairy Production Complex in Sadat City, Menoufiya.
Reviewing the center’s components, Sisi also instructed that the center’s lab and technical services must cover the Nile Delta governorates, while serving as an applied research center concerned with the genetic improvement of livestock, maximizing meat and dairy production, and offering training for freshly graduates of relevant faculties.
Sisi also followed up the efforts afoot to enhance the national fertilizers’ production system.
