SADAT CITY – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi witnessed Thursday morning a ceremony for opening the second stage of the Silo Foods Industries city in Sadat City in Menofiya governorate.
The ceremony started with reciting some verses of Quran.
The president was received upon arrival by Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli, Defense Minister Mohamed Zaki and a number of ministers and top officials.
Silo Foods – an affiliate to the National Service Projects Organisation (NSPO) of the Armed Forces – is considered the sole and the first food industries city in the Middle East.
The second stage includes establishing a factory for dairy, biscuits, halva and tahina products in addition to a printing complex and a central lab to secure people’s needs in the local market and export products abroad to secure hard currency.
The second stage is meant also to develop the school nutrition system.
General Walid Abu Al Majd, Director of the National Service Projects Organisation, said all the companies affiliated with the organization are subjected to the censorship of the Central Auditing Organisation.
He said the organisation is paying necessary fees to bodies concerned in return for services it gets, making clear that it paid six billion dollars for the electricity, three billion pounds for gas and 4.5 billion pounds in taxes.
He made clear that the organization is trying, through carrying out projects, to secure part of needs of local market in a bid to alleviate burdens on the State.
