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The Rural Development Program

Introduction

The Rural Development Program is dedicated to supporting Egyptian farmers and their families. 

The program seeks to help improve the productivity and health of targeted rural communities by providing new agricultural models and farming techniques, veterinary services, and funding for various farming projects. 

The program also makes a conscious effort to improve the lives of women in rural communities, offering them opportunities to build their professional capacities and assist them in finding new marketing venues. 

The primary objective of the Rural Development Program is to help improve the overall health and productivity of targeted rural communities, enabling all community members to acquire a higher standard of living.

Key Achievements in 2021

  • Adaptation to climate change - new added interventions and recommendations to address the repercussions of climate change on agriculture. These include:

  1. A daily alarm system - in cooperation with the Climate Change Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture, the agriculture-early-warning-feature is activated through social media so that farmers can have advance knowledge of suitable agri-response.
  2. Adopting more sustainable agriculture techniques - rationalizing water consumption in planting, such as adopting a system of planting sugar cane seedlings instead of seeds. 
  3. Raising awareness about new water control irrigation systems - in cooperation with private sectors and the Ministry of Environment at the annual farmers' meetings. 
  4. Recycling agri-waste - 6 agri-recycling awareness seminars and five compost/food nutritional value models. 


  • Building bridges between rural development committees and research centers in order to update agricultural methods and reduce water consumption. 
  • Educating farmers with technical skills to complete feasibility studies for their future projects (13 income-generating projects were created). 
  • Enriching the exchange of experiences about the innovative methodology of planting new crops, building relationships with governmental organizations, obtaining the best prices for raw materials through farmer coalitions, and expanding the farmers' capacities. (Six farmer coalitions were created and two training sessions were attended by 43 farmers). 
  • Maintaining livestock in cooperation with The Ministry of Agriculture by implementing 27 governmental veterinary vaccination campaigns from which 1,045 farmers benefitted and 7,317 heads of cattle/domestic animals were vaccinated. 


Success Story

For the first time in Al-zaar village, the Bishopric implemented governmental veterinary vaccination campaigns from which the community greatly benefitted.

The Bishopric also initiated an awareness campaign to educate about the importance of vaccines, how to protect and properly treat animals, and how to achieve the greatest productivity from their resources. 

Since Al-zaar has implemented these practices, they have experienced zero deaths in their livestock from disease - an accomplishment.

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