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 مفاوضات باكستانية سودانية لتسهيل إجراءات دخول "فلاحين" باكستانيين "برفقة اسرهم" السودان
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هذا ما ورد على لسان وزير الأغذية والزراعة الباكستاني نزار محمد جوندال عقب إجتماع جرى بين الوزير جوندال وسعادة السفير السوداني في باكستان السيد/ محمد عمر موسى
Visas to Pakistani farming families: 'government negotiating with Sudan to help promote agriculture sector'
ISLAMABAD (December 03, 2010) :
Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture (MinFa) Nazar Muhammad Gondal has said that the government is negotiating with Sudanese government for the provision of land and family visas to Pakistani farming families to promote Sudanese agriculture sector. The minister was talking to Sudanese ambassador to Pakistan, Mohammad Omar Musa, who called on him here on Thursday. "Our farming community is most hard working in the world. If they are provided required land and supported, they could prove extremely beneficial for both the countries. The farmers will transfer their valuable farming experience and help promote best agricultural practices in Sudan," Gondal remarked. The ambassador said that Sudan would cordially welcome to have Pakistani farming families and will ensure to facilitate and support them in all the possible ways. He said that the government of Pakistan is fully aware of the food security concerns of the country therefore, it gives top priority to agriculture sector. "Our strategy is to revive flood hit farms as soon as possible by providing incentives to the farming community including free of cost wheat seed and concessional loans aimed at productivity of wheat, cotton, rice, oil-seed and horticultural crops as well as livestock breeds for increasing production of milk, meat and eggs," Gondal said. He said that the strategy also focus on improving water utilisation techniques and water efficiency because productivity of crops and livestock cannot be increased without water. Ensuring the availability of safe food to more than 170 million people of Pakistan is a big challenge which requires an integrated system of applying sanitary and phsyto-sanitary measures at every step of the food supply chain, he maintained. "We really desire to benefit from rich experience in agriculture sector and presently Sudan have Egyptian and Palestinian farming communities working in agriculture sector of Sudan and we would be more than happy to have skilled Pakistani farmers," Sudanese ambassador added. In response to the ambassador's request, the minister said that his ministry will ensure the representation of Pakistan at the thirteenth session of United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which would be held in Sudanese Capital Khartoum from December 4 to 8, 2010. Gondal said that the proposed plan to transfer farming families to Sudan will be included in the MoU, which is already under process between the Governments of Sudan and Pakistan for co-operation in the field of Agriculture. The meeting was also attended by additional secretaries Minfa Babar Yaqoob, Fateh Muhammad, Shafqat Hussain Naghmi and other senior officials of the ministry.
http://www.brecorder.com/news/agriculture-and-allied/pakistan/1129973:news.html
http://app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123475&Itemid=2
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Re: مفاوضات باكستانية سودانية لتسهيل إجراءات دخول "فلاحين" باكستانيين "برفقة اس (Re: حيدر حسن ميرغني)
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Egypt eyes Sudan for wheat needs
(AP) – Nov 23, 2010 CAIRO (AP) —
Egypt has turned to its impoverished southern neighbor, Sudan, for use of agricultural land as the world's largest wheat importer looks to meet domestic food supply needs and quell a rapidly growing population increasingly irate about chronic price increases. With a summer drought in Russia that propelled world grain prices higher still fresh in the government's mind, Egyptian officials in September revived a 30-year-old agreement with Sudan that encourages private companies to plant wheat in northern Sudan. The deal brings Egypt into a growing list of Arab nations that have turned to Africa as a new breadbasket. "We are facing a shortage of agricultural commodities internationally," said Ayman Abou Hadid, chairman of the state-run Agricultural Research Center. Under the deal, the Egyptian government provides investors with incentives for irrigation and infrastructure, but production is left up to the private companies, he said. "The government is not going to participate," said Abou Hadid. The deal marks the latest attempt by the government to meet future needs in the Arab world's most populous nation. But the push has clear political overtones. An unusually hot summer in Egypt led to a sharp increase in vegetable prices — though those gains were linked in part to a decision by the government to export tomatoes, leaving the local market short. Fears about increases in food prices had already taken root even before Russia decided to halt grain exports for the rest of the year after a summer drought killed off a third of its annual harvest. Over the course of the year, meat prices seesawed, more than doubling before retreating slightly. Similar gains were seen in more basic goods, as well, leading to a series of protests that came at a particularly critical time for the government of President Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled the country for the past 30 years. With parliamentary elections set to be held later this month and presidential elections slated for next year, Egyptians have increasingly complained about the government's failure to improve living standards, raise salaries or provide basic services. In 2008, shortages in subsidized bread lead to fights that left eight dead. In 1977, an attempt to end such subsidies led to riots that required army intervention. While the latest protests are unlikely to seriously threaten Mubarak's, or his ruling National Democratic Party's, hold on power, they highlight a widening schism between rich and poor in the key U.S. ally and increasingly vocal protests about the economic situation in the country. Critics argue that the country's economic growth has largely failed to trickle down to much of the population, with 40 percent of the people living on or near the World Bank poverty line of under $2 per day. The deal also provides a potential boon for Egypt, which remains at odds with several other nations that share the Nile River, over water quotas. Abu Hadid said water used to irrigate wheat crops in Sudan would come from that nation's allotment, not Egypt's. The new production would likely be just enough to meet Egypt's rate of population growth, said Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist at the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. It could also provide a sorely needed cash infusion for Sudan's struggling economy, which has been ravaged by the country's a 21-year civil war between Sudan's mostly Muslim north and predominantly animist and Christian south. "Sudan has a huge potential," he said. "There are so many positive aspects as long as some code of conduct is respected." Egypt is not alone in tapping Sudan's vast land base for crops. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have also turned to the country for food. Some experts argue, however, that the deal will do little for Sudan, which has its own food worries, along with political problems. Nader Noureddin, a soil and water expert at Cairo University's College of Agriculture, said wheat production in Sudan's northern desert would require tremendous amounts of water and would do little to supplement the country's own domestic need for the grain. "They need it (wheat) much more than Egypt," he said. "This is their own land." Additionally, any private Egyptian investment will not help Sudanese farmers because the companies that venture in will be looking at profit, not whether the war-ravaged nation can feed itself, said Noureddin. The criticism is dismissed by officials, however, who argue that the new wheat production will be traded on the open market and foreign investment will help improve infrastructure. "Any African country that can afford to grow more food, that is better for everyone," said Abou Hadid.
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حيدر حسن ميرغني
Mustafa Muckhtar
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
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