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RFI
April 28, 2018
As Egypt modernized, Fayoum lagged behind and remained one of the poorer agricultural regions in the country. Even today, farmers tend to their fields using traditional, outdated, means and the pace of life remains slow. It's also here where you'll find the small village of Tunis –of a population of underÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
April 28, 2018
CAIRO - Egyptian food security is at risk because tens of thousands of farmers are threatening to stop growing wheat against the backdrop of feuds with the government on crop prices. The wheat harvest, expected to begin soon in Egypt, is usually a time of joy in the countryside with farmers preparing grainÃâà...
Haaretz
April 27, 2018
Another farmer, 51, who prefers to remain nameless, needed a job for shmitta – the one year out of seven that Jewish farmers are supposed to leave their fields fallow. The shmitta year ... “In this region we could have an advantage doing projects in countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan,” he says.
Egypttoday
April 15, 2018
CAIRO – 15 April 2018: Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade will start receiving the local wheat crop from farmers starting Sunday, April 15, at LE 600 per ... Moselhi told a local newspaper at the beginning of April that Egypt will issue new tenders to import three shipments of quantities between 180,000 andÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 21, 2018
It's not just mangos, Egyptian cotton, some varieties of citrus, and hops that were better for beer than the types already being grown here. Fairchild also ... He had to know how to cajole farmers, most of whom had never seen an American before, into allowing him to take a cutting or send back some seeds.
eco-business.com
March 21, 2018
Farmer and cattle herder Rajakaruna Amaradasa, 55, stands on farmland abandoned to drought in Adigama, a village 170 km northwest of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug. ... For example, in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, local extension services are delivering real-time weather data to vegetable farmers via SMS.
Egypttoday
March 21, 2018
BEIJING - 21 March 2018: China will actively take steps to safeguard its interests as well as those of its industries, Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said, in light of what he described as acts of trade protectionism on the part of the United States. The U.S. decision to launch trade investigations is aÃâà...
Food & Wine
March 21, 2018
In four hours, 200-some Puerto Rican farmers and stateside volunteers will descend on this farm in Patillas to devour a multicourse, locally sourced, fundraising feast; drain 15 ... She's cooking a lamb fricassee, made with an animal that she got from a farmer friend in San Isabel, 45 minutes west of Patillas.
The Jewish Voice
March 21, 2018
Last week, IDF officers, along with representatives of the Defense Ministry met with their Egyptian counterparts in Sharm El-Sheikh in an attempt to end the disruptions, but were reportedly told by the Egyptians that the electronic warfare would continue as long as ISIS loyalists are at large in Sinai. RecentlyÃâà...
WIRED
March 20, 2018
Understanding what happens on that acreage is complicated—for individual farmers and agricultural conglomerates. Understanding how to improve what's going on is even harder. That's why Granular—a farm software business under the agriculture division of DowDuPont—penned a deal with Planet.
Egypt Independent
March 20, 2018
New York, for example, has protected the three largest watersheds that supply water to the city since the late 1990s through forest preservation programmes and paying farmers to take on environmentally friendly practices. “Disposing of the largest unfiltered water supply in the US, the city now saves moreÃâà...
Global Times
March 20, 2018
Egyptian actor and actress simulate the daily life of farmer at the Pharaonic Village park in Cairo, Egypt, March 18, 2018. ... exhibition halls here, the performance by actors and actresses simulating daily activities and arts of the ancient Egyptians makes the park a "living museum" of ancient Egyptian life.
Egypttoday
March 19, 2018
Chairman of the bank, Al-Sayed al-Kosair said Sunday that his bank issued certificates with LE 20 million in two weeks amid awareness campaigns across Egypt. He added that his bank will intensify the promotion for the certificates to reach farmers in Egypt's governorates. Four Egyptian banks started inÃâà...
BloombergQuint
March 19, 2018
(Bloomberg) -- Chinese banks will provide 85 percent of the funding needed for the $3 billion skyscraper-studded portion of Egypt's new capital which is being developed by the China State .... The Congress will help farmers and, if required, waive loans like the party pardoned Rs 70,000 crore in 2009.
DTN The Progressive Farmer (blog)
March 17, 2018
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt and Russia have set dates in April for the resumption of flights between the two countries, suspended by Moscow after Islamic State militants downed a ... Safwat Musallam, the EgyptAir chairman, said in a statement Friday that Egyptian flights to Russia will start on April 12, a day later.
DTN The Progressive Farmer (blog)
March 15, 2018
CAIRO (AP) -- With less than two weeks before elections, Egypt's president says he's prepared to personally join security forces battling Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula. The outcome of the March 26-28 election is a foregone conclusion, with general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi runningÃâà...
kiiitv.com
March 14, 2018
An Egyptian farmer checks his phone as he cools off his horse, as a boy swims in the River Nile, during a heat wave in Giza, Egypt, on July 24, 2015. A new study said that summer will be two months longer by the end of the century than it is now. Amr Nabil, AP. Summer is already a beastly hot, four-monthÃâà...
Belarus News (BelTA)
March 14, 2018
Bobruiskagromash representatives said: “The Egyptian market is very promising for us. After the Belarusian head of state visited Egypt in January 2017, cooperation was invigorated across the board. We intend to expand our presence on this market and offer new kinds of machines to Egyptian farmers.
Belarus News (BelTA)
February 27, 2018
... thanks to larger shipments to Egypt, which economy is experiencing a revival. MTZ's trading house in Egypt stepped up its work in 2017. Modern assembly equipment was commissioned. Schemes for interaction between Belarusian and Egyptian banks, which are ready to lend money to Egyptian farmersÃâà...
DTN The Progressive Farmer (blog)
February 24, 2018
TUNA AL-GABAL, Egypt (AP) -- Egypt's Antiquities Ministry announced on Saturday the discovery of an ancient necropolis near the Nile Valley city of Minya, south of Cairo, the latest discovery in an area known to house ancient catacombs from the Pharaonic Late Period and the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Egypttoday
February 22, 2018
PARIS - 23 February 2018: French President Emmanuel Macron staked out a middle ground on Thursday ahead of a major farm show, urging farmers to invest more ... "He met our expectations with his message, but there weren't enough hard figures," said Paul Chanvillard, a 26-year-old dairy farmer.
gulfnews.com
February 16, 2018
Cairo: An oversupply of frozen imported chickens at the Egyptian market has resulted in a drop in their prices by almost half, raising fears about public health. The chickens, mainly imported from Brazil and Ukraine, retail for 17 Egyptian pounds (Dh 3.5) per piece at government-run outlets and privateÃâà...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 31, 1999
The pilot of the small plane was flying to Macedon, Wayne County, when he landed in the field in Perinton due to a possible engine failure, according to Egypt Fire Department Chief Jack DeLisio. Egypt's fire department received a call about 6:40 p.m.. "It's a wonder there was a place that was kind of level,"Ãâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Egypt has long considered the Nile its own, even though the river and its tributaries flow through 10 countries. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat famously said in 1979 that he was prepared to go to war over the Nile if its flow was ever threatened. But any threat from Ethiopia in the past was empty – until now.
Reuters TV
December 31, 1999
These Egyptian farmers in the Nile Delta village of Kafr Ziada should be starting to plant their summer crop of rice. But they're being forced to change ... The dam has stoked fears of war and several years of negotiations, talks between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan stalled in April. How drastically the farmers ofÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
December 31, 1999
Farmers transplant rice seedlings in a paddy field in Qalyub in Egypt's El-Kalubia governorate. (Reuters) ... Egyptian media reported that the expected plan would have seen Egypt accept a deduction of 425 million cubic metres of water out of its annual share of 1.56 billion cubic metres over three years theÃâà...
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