President of agriculture: Arab region suffers from scarcity of water resources

Dr Sayed Khalifa, chairman of the Agriculture Union and deputy secretary general of the Union of Arab Agricultural Engineers, said Egypt is implementing smart agriculture as part of the national agricultural projects launched by President Abdel Fattah Al- Sisi (agricultural projects, animal production projects, fish farming projects, and cultivated 2.5 million palm palms of luxury fins).

On the sidelines of the meetings of the second press meeting devoted to the achievements and activities of the Arab joint operations facilities, which are difficult in the Tunisian capital, the Egyptian Minister of Agriculture has lent his support to the meeting. Egyptian expertise in these projects, symbol of the new and intelligent agriculture of the brothers of the Arab countries. He pointed out that the conferences had discussed the working paper (the development role of the Union of Arab Agricultural Engineers in agricultural development and announced its modern and intelligent foundations).

Khalifa pointed out that the Arab region suffers from the scarcity of its water resources and its dependence on the resources of international rivers. The water supply necessary for the continuity of agricultural and rural development in the Arab countries is one of the most important issues affecting official and civil Arab institutions. With artistic, economic, political, institutional, environmental and social distances that are universally respected to be the source of conflicts and crises that have inflated the country.

The President of the Agriculture Council said that the examination of the obstacles to the development of Arab agriculture, namely the low level of technical innovation in Arab agriculture, was completed and studies had prevented many Arab countries from applying new technical models due to lack of service provision, investment and credit facilities. Prevent the adequacy of the institutional evidence required for transfer and resettlement and announce and adopt new farming techniques. Technical innovations in Arab agriculture go beyond productive services and the management of agricultural resources.

Khalifa said the Arab region suffers from some weaknesses in internal and external marketing processes, taking into account the legislation of Arab importing countries and providing high quality products with acceptable specifications to support competition in the markets.

The head of the agriculture team said that the problems facing Arab agriculture is the depletion of natural resources available for agriculture, which translates into a new and intelligent agricultural development, which translates into an increase in the food deficit, led by the Arab region, by an unfair investment of available agricultural resources in the Arab region. Intensifying the salination and desertification of agricultural land.

He emphasized that the meetings held in Tunisia had highlighted other conflicts facing agriculture in the region, including weak human, institutional and technical capacity building to monitor modern agricultural development, pointing out that most of the problems and obstacles identified by national agricultural research and development institutions and other guidance and funding services due to the weakness of the technical and administrative cadres operating in these institutions.

The president of the Agricultural Association argued that this required the development of agricultural university education and the introduction of modern courses in faculties of agriculture, including rural engineering, active engineering, environmental engineering, landscaping and landscaping, highlighting the value of smart farming to intensify the production and productivity of the. Arab agriculture. Because it is a way of producing to overcome the negative impact of climate change such as greenhouse agriculture.