Egypt is the heart of the world and it is one of the oldest countries that have known about agriculture in prehistoric time and have been and still are the main profession on which the Egyptian economy depends, the ancient Egyptians cared about agriculture and invented until recently in various agricultural operations.

EGYPT

* This great land is the land of civilization and ancient history, it has been the first land on which the civilization of one of the greatest civilizations that have passed on the history of mankind, the ancient Pharaonic civilization, whose effects are still prominent to witness the greatness of ancient Egyptians.

Historical brief about seed industry in Egypt

Laws and legislations has been issued since 1926 to organize seed industry in Egypt and back then Egypt was one of the founding countries of the international organization ISTA.

These laws encouraged the private sector to invest in seed industry since 1980, and that led to increase the number of private companies and encourage them to engage effectively in producing certified high quality seeds. Also the governmental structure that responsible for applying these laws and legislations has developed

Seed Industry in Egypt

High Quality seeds is the secret of success

• Seed industry in Egypt has been developed lately, because the number of working sectors in seeds production are increased.

• Seed industry in Egypt basically depend on cereal crops, specially white and yellow hybrid corn and self-pollinated verities as rice, wheat and cotton.

Seed Producers in Egypt

Government Sector Private Sector

36 PLANT

PREPARATION stations of SEEDS

Two Tissue Culture

Labs

7,483 AGRICULTURAL

TRADING SHOPS

Governmental Sector

(by number)

444 COMPANIES

to PRODUCE SEEDS

Private Sector (by number)

159 PLANT

SORTING POTATOES

54 PLANT

PREPARATION OF SEEDS

39

Tissue Culture Labs

5740 AGRICULTURAL

TRADING SHOPS

268 REFRIGERATOR

for STORAGE OF POTATO SEEDS

Strategic Crops in Egypt

Corn Wheat Cotton Rice

In addition to Bean, Clover and Soya bean.

The cultivated areas by Fadden for strategic crops or for

producing certified seeds

165162

137594

125207

Corn , Rice , Cotton, Soybean, Wheat, Bean, Clovers

201820172016

Vegetable Crops (Potato)

292,854 tons

Medical and Aromatic Plants

113,73 tons

Field Crops 147,527 tons

The Egyptian’ s Annual Needs of Seeds for the local Markets

3,851,700 Seedlings

Vegetable Seeds 695 tons

Policy of Agriculture Ministry to Develop

Seed Industry

1. Encourage different entities to develop new varieties with high yields and have the ability to endure unusual climate conditions.

2. Create the right atmosphere to maximize the role of the private sector and encourage investments in seed production and marketing activities.

3. Re-organization of the governmental sector to be compatible with the changing conditions in the market economies.

4. Provide Egypt a comparative advantage in producing new varieties by joining the International organizations as UPOV, ISTA, OECD and COMSA.

5. Increase the exports from local agricultural crops and raise the efficiency of seed industry.

Develop and Improve the Agricultural

Performance Plan

The Ministry of Agriculture sets the policies for the development of the Egyptian agriculture and adjusts legislations of seeds production in line with the strategy of the Ministry to maximize the role of the private sector in the seed industry according to local and global change.

So, the aim of Ministry of Agriculture for reaching the improvements of performance are through the following:- 1.Increasing the yield of Self-Pollinated crops,

gradually from 30% to 70% by using certified seeds.

2.Encouraging the cultivation of hybrid crops .

Cairo , the capital of Egypt at night

View of River Nile and the pyramids of Ancient Egypt.

Cairo Museum in Tahrir Square

Mohammed Ail Castle one of the most famous attractions in Cairo.

Egypt is the land embracing the religious complex .

Khaan Al-Khalili is one of the most famous tourism attractions for shopping in Cairo.

Egyptian Opera Building.

A view of the magnificent pyramids, which is one of the seven wonders of the world.

The current dependence on the use of modern techniques in agriculture, which saves time, effort and reduces the loss of yield.

The production of Rice and Wheat which is the most important strategic crops in Egypt.

Egyptian cotton is one of the most famous crop in the textile industry.

Egypt, which was the food basket of the ancient world and now one of the worlds largest market's for vegetable seeds.

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