In the presence of more than 20 senior sugar beet growers, all heads of companies producing sugar beet, and many dignitaries, This morning, in Wadi Al-Natroun, Al-Dabaa Road, the inauguration ceremony of the 2022 beet harvest and harvest season. With the participation of the Egyptian-African Businessmen’s Association, headed by Dr. Yousrey Elsharkawi The Society’s Agriculture Committee, headed by Dr. Adel Al-Ghandour, The attendance was presented by the largest agricultural companies producing beets, and one of the members of the association was the company “Sugarbit”, which organized the ceremony.
And the presence of all the strategic partners in this production, which is unprecedented and the pride of the Arab Republic of Egypt, was in an intense presence.
– Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Bank.
– Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Bank.
– A representative of the National Bank.
– Zambia’s ambassador.
– Sierra Leonean ambassador.
– Mr. Deputy Minister of Supply.
– Official Spokesperson for the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade.
– Nile Sugar Company.
– Nubaria Sugar Company.
– Canal Sugar Company.
– Al-Nouran Company.
– Alexandria Sugar Company (Safola).
– Fayoum Sugar Company.
– Abu Qir Fertilizers Company.
– Integrated Industries Company.
– Egypt Holland Agricultural Company.
– Greenfield Company.
– A representative from the Air Force, Egypt’s Future Project.
And many leaders of banks and agriculture in Wadi El-Natrun and El-Dabaa.
Dr. Yousrey El-Sharkawi delivered his speech, expressing his pride and happiness for Egypt’s achievements in the agricultural field, confirming that the Egyptian private sector is following the directions of the Egyptian political leadership in support of all agricultural production projects.
ElSharkawi pointed out that Egypt is on the verge of confirming the achievement of self-sufficiency in sugar by 100%, and that Egypt is cultivating 655 thousand feddans of beetroot, achieving for the first time an increase and a yield of 12 million tons, at a growth rate of 4% over the previous year, and that there is a very promising opportunity and studies confirm that there is Coming expansion in the coming years in beet production, This may aim to add another 280,000 acres for beet cultivation, starting in the coming years.
ElSharkawi indicated his pride and pride in the association’s senior members of the land-owning companies, Which has a long history of diversified agricultural production, As well as leading agricultural producers, Sugar Beet is one of the successful entrepreneurship models in the field of agricultural production. And it achieved unprecedented results on an area of 6 thousand acres this year. And it developed the work quickly and now owns the modern German high-tech machinery, equipment and mechanization for harvesting beets, not only for its farms, but also to serve the expansion of the various agricultural sector and the employment of these equipments with other strategic partners.
ElSharkawi expressed his thanks and pride in the specialized Egyptian banking sector, led by the Egyptian Agricultural Bank, which achieved a breakthrough in structuring, reform, and planned and systematic expansion to serve agriculture, which was behind the support and provision of various financing tools for agricultural production. The Sugar House project is one of the fruits and one of the thousands of models that were presented during the previous two years.
Elsharkawi called on the Agricultural Bank of Egypt to present its modern expertise. The development it witnessed in all axes made us think about exporting the specialized banking service and expanding it into the depths of the African continent with clear support. To the trend that seeks to achieve Egyptian expansion with African brothers and presence to achieve food security for the continent and for Egypt through a self-reliance system, This is what we must bear in mind to encourage the Egyptian investor in the agricultural sector to enter the depths of the continent.
