"Agricultural research" Hassad reviews the activities of the Agricultural Extension Centers Initiative during the month of December 2024
Within the framework of the directives of Alaa Farouk, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, and the instructions of Dr. Adel Abdel Azim, Head of the Agricultural Research Center, and in coordination with Dr. Alaa Azouz, Head of the Agricultural Extension Sector, and the governorates’ agricultural directorates, and through the intensive operating plan for agricultural extension centers, the experts of the Agricultural Research Center continued Providing technical support to farmers through various and intensive extension activities in all areas of agricultural production and in various governorates. During the month of December 2024, about “2952” A diverse extension activity, including guidance seminars, discussion circles, and field visits within the scope of “300” An extension centre, monitoring and land reclamation associations benefited approximately “74,350” Farms in the governorates of Aswan, Luxor, Qena, Sohag, Assiut, Minya, Beni Suef, New Valley, Fayoum, Qalyubia, Menoufia, Beheira, Sharqia, Gharbia, Dakahlia, Ismailia, Damietta, Port Said, Kafr El-Sheikh, Giza, Suez, Alexandria, Matrouh, North Sinai, South Sinai, and the Nubariya Directorate of Agriculture.
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The doctor said Yasser Al-Haimari, general coordinator of the extension and training activities of the Agricultural Research Center, said that these activities included various winter crops, including wheat, sugar cane, sugar beets, onions, fava beans, kidney beans, garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, peas, artichokes, and many horticultural crops. Such as citrus fruits, pomegranates, grapes, mangoes, date palms, olives, medicinal and aromatic plants, in addition to animal production. poultry, and fish resources. During these activities, farmers were made aware of the necessary technical recommendations and good agricultural practices to improve the quantity and quality of these various crops.
It also included methods for integrated control of pests, diseases and weeds, and rationalization Using irrigation water and making the most of land and water units, and rationalizing the use of fertilizers. The activities also included climate change and its negative effects on various crops and ways to protect plants, animal and poultry production from sharp changes in temperature and reduce Of its negative effects.
Farmers were also made aware of the technical recommendations necessary to promote livestock and poultry wealth, methods of sound breeding, nutrition and health care for animals, and diseases common between humans and animals and ways to prevent them. The extension activities also included a number of seminars devoted to recycling agricultural waste to preserve the environment and achieve the highest possible benefit from agricultural production.
He pointed out "Al-Himari" A number of guidance seminars were implemented to develop the life skills of rural women, especially in the areas of food processing, rural home management, reproductive health, population culture, small and micro enterprises, marketing, and other activities related to the advancement of rural women and their economic and social empowerment, within the framework of the second phase of the initiative. Bint Al-Rif, which is implemented by the Agricultural Research Center to support sustainable development plans in the Egyptian countryside.
The general coordinator of activities added Extension and training for the Agricultural Research Center, that a number of extension activities were also implemented in coordination with the land reclamation sector, which included all land reclamation supervisors and associations and included various winter crops, most notably the wheat crop, in addition to activities related to climate change and its negative effects on agricultural production, animal care and health, And rationalization of water use, in addition to technical support activities related to all crops that are grown in each of these areas, and other extension activities that would enhance agricultural production in these areas as well. How and how, and to achieve the highest possible benefit from the available agricultural resources.
Experts from various specializations at the Agricultural Research Center participated in implementing the activities of these activities, especially the institutes of agricultural extension, field crops, orchards, Plant protection and plant diseases, agricultural economics, animal production, animal health, land, water and environment, agricultural engineering, food technology, the Central Laboratory for Date Palm Research and Development, the Central Laboratory for Organic Agriculture, and the Central Laboratory for Research
