CAIRO – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi directed the government to coordinate with the bodies concerned to expand olive tree cultivated areas, and promote olive processing and marketing activities for higher added-value oil production.
Sisi made the directives during a meeting with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and relevant state ministers on Saturday to follow up the progress made in some national agricultural projects aimed at ensuring food security.
Reviewing the implementation status of a mega food industries complex “Kaha & Edfina” in Sadat City of Monufia, which extends over 120 feddans, Sisi instructed officials to swiftly finalize the project and set up an integrated plan to operate production lines following state-of-the-art and world-class food processing systems to meet local market needs.
The project, which includes nine factories at an investment cost of EGP 5.5 billion, is being carried out in partnership with the Holding Company for Food Industries and the Armed Forces’ National Service Products Organization (NSPO).
It is part of the ‘food industrial city’ which hosts major chains of food factories, including Silo Foods complex.
Sisi also followed up the progress of a national project to adopt better sugarcane plantation methods by using seedlings, rationalizing the use of fertilizers, applying modern irrigation systems, and facilitating agricultural mechanization to cut production costs and reduce crop losses.
He was also briefed on a future vision for improving the aquaculture industry in all Egyptian lakes.
The ministers of agriculture and land reclamation, supply and internal trade, water resources and irrigation, trade and industry attended the meeting, along with Director General of NSPO Staff Maj. Gen. Walid Abul-Magd. (M
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