Contracting with foreign companies to increase investment opportunities and support the manufacturing sector
40 olive factories awaiting a dream of planting the 100 million trees and reviving the industry
Experts reveal absent facts in the sector: Egypt has a great industrial strength in the olive sector capable of implementing its national program
Requests to besiege the adulterated markets to preserve the reputation of the national product
3 national products in the manufacturing sector achieve added value to the national economy
"Olive return on the Spanish economy is equivalent to the return of oil with the economy of Saudi Arabia." Thus, experts and specialists describe the added value achieved by the olive manufacturing system in Spain, which made the Egyptian state turn the recent period to advance this general crop, to achieve comprehensive development and sustainability in this file Important vital, as a national economy that increases the opportunities for investment in the country, and achieves a great economic value similar to large countries that have achieved a boom in this file, and the directives of President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi have been clear in this matter since he took over the management of the country's affairs, where he directed the adoption of a 100 cultivation project A million trees in Egypt, support the agricultural manufacturing system from this important product, and the President's directives have recently been renewed again to continue to work in this file and increase the opportunities of foreign investment in the sector in the coming period.
Several measures started by the Egyptian state represented in the relevant ministries after the directives of President Sisi, began with periodic discussions of officials in this file to translate the president's directives on the ground, and the start of studying the completion of the national project adopted by the state about 7 years ago, where the Ministry of Agriculture held a number of meetings, for example With representatives of foreign companies to start contracting olive cultivation and manufacturing in Egypt as well as the Egyptian private sector companies to support this large sector, in addition to the start of adopting a national program to produce olive seedlings to be cultivated with varieties that achieve high productivity of oils, and many major factories processed for olive products are used by olive products Which exports its products to global markets.
And what is not known to many .. The olives are included in many national industries, especially olive oils, which meet great acceptance among the countries of the Middle East and the European Union that import Egyptian olive oils, which are characterized by their high quality and distinctive purity, which makes many of these countries mix with oils And another and sell it as a 100 -percent natural product, in addition to entering the olives in the manufacture of table olives, which is a large food component that also receives acceptance in the local and global markets and Egypt achieves a large productivity of it annually, especially, and that the items that are planted in Egypt are from table olives that are percentage Almost 80 % of the total of this production, and finally the most important product, which is the feed, which are products required for animal production farms, and Egypt suffers from a large deficit, and therefore supporting the olive industry and cultivation in Egypt achieves an increase in Egypt's productivity of the feed.
Despite the importance of this national industry in Egypt, the olive industry, there are many challenges that worlds face in this sector, in addition to many axes that require them to be considered and support in this file, its narration began by Dr. Adel Khairat, head of the Egyptian olive Council and member of the Consultative Committee of the Dolmeliton Council In Spain, which first emphasized that the size of the olive industry in Egypt is very large, and there are many major factories that work in this sector that ranges almost 15 factories that work with international specifications and export their products to global markets, and there are approximately 25 other small factories operating in the industry sector Olives in Egypt are waiting for the president's directives to implement, and therefore this confirms that Egypt has a large national industry in the olive sector, but the crisis it faces is the lack of sufficient quantities of the ages of the times that feed these factories.
Dr. Khairat added that the olive manufacturing sector in Egypt needs more cultivated areas of the crop, which was confirmed by President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi in the recent directives regarding the advancement of this important file, especially since Egypt, according to the statistics of the Statistical Center of the Agricultural Research Center at the Ministry of Agriculture, has 57 million An olive tree, which confirms that Egypt has approached the dream of planting the 100 million olive trees that the political leadership previously alerted in 2015, and that the expansion of more spaces requires the necessity of providing good seedlings for the manufacturing system that achieves great productivity of oils, explaining The energy of the factories in Egypt is greater than the quantities of goat produced by olive farms in Egypt.
He pointed out that there are challenges that have recently affected the period on the olive manufacturing sector in Egypt, on top of which, the climate changes that Egypt witnessed last season that affected the productivity of the crop to less than half, as Egypt's production this season reached approximately 350 thousand tons of olives this season due to these circumstances. This made the owners of the factory resort to importing it from Syria as raw olives to manufacture it, especially since many of the owners of these factories are committed to paying bank loans, so it is required to continue to work even if he achieved losses, demanding the necessity of schedule the required taxes from manufacturers and reviewing the export revenues terms, especially since there are many One of the terms of collecting customs duties during the export process, which is known as the "export burdens" that exporters demand to return in order to preserve the continuation of the industry and provide the required support for the exporters, in addition to the need to establish a competent authority to end the export procedures and fees during the same net to save time and costs on exporters.
He pointed out that Egypt witnessed in 2019 a major boom in olive production, and this is with an official reports certificate issued by the International olive Council, which is based in Spain, confirming the success of the Egyptian olives in achieving the challenge and competition for Spain, where these reports confirmed that production reached 690 thousand tons, the size of Egypt's production in a year 2019 - 2020 of table olives, while Spanish olives did not exceed 500 thousand tons, which confirms that Egypt has a great opportunity to support the olive industry and the advancement of this great national industry that can achieve added value to the Egyptian economy, especially from the recognition of the olive -producing countries That Egypt is the first to export and produce table olives, stressing that the industry of table olives is very popular with the Egyptian and international consumer at the same time, and therefore Egypt has a real opportunity to achieve the industrial renaissance in manufacturing olive products, especially in conjunction with the plan to increase its productivity.
Dr. Khairat stressed that Egypt's consumption of table olives ranges from approximately 400 thousand to 500 thousand tons annually, which confirms that the Egyptian culture in the consumption of this product opens the opportunity to support the local market in front of olive derivatives, in addition to the presence of a state of popularity in its marketing system, as Egypt exports approximately 200 thousand tons annually to abroad, and the political leadership has recently tended to upgrade the olive system, support its industry and marketing, and President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi had previously directed a presidential program to advance the cultivation and manufacture of olive, and the seven branches of olive trees were adopted. The presidential program included the adoption of the project and cultivation of a million trees, explaining that the seven olive branches project identified 7 places in North and South Sinai, Farafra, Siwa, the West Upper Egypt Road, the Cairo -Alexandria Desert Road, Marsa Matrouh, the Northern Coast and Al -Oas, and the project also includes the establishment of an integrated industrial agricultural complex in each area based on Providing service, logistical places and agricultural manufacturing for olives in these areas.
Dr. Khairat called for the necessity of establishing a national program that is supervised by the international to market olive products as happened in Turkey and Tunisia, after it created a commercial name for olives that are marketed globally through the international opposition held in this regard, and through the relevant embassies and marketing committees, which is in conjunction with the state plan to stimulate exportsEgyptian, especially since olive products are exported to raw without final products, as is the global practice, which affects the global quality olive reputation that is also characterized by the Egyptian product.
"Olives in Egypt are an integrated industry and large development projects that provide dozens of job opportunities for young people and hard currencies from abroad." Thus, Eng. Ahmed Nabil, an olive transplant expert, said that these are factors that made the political leadership begin to adopt a real strategy to advance this file within the programs of supporting national industries. In Egypt, where this strategic crop enters into many food industries that support the export bill, and achieve the added value of the product, especially since the olive crop has suffered over recent years neglecting and ignoring from the concerned authorities despite its great importance, adding that the state’s absence from supporting this file has led To the decline in the manufacturing sector and allowed the spread of the phenomenon of olive products and its manufacturers.
Nabil pointed out that the recent period began the private sector to introduce global and modern technologies for the oil manufacturing system, and to upgrade its derivatives, as some companies have introduced modern production lines to manufacture table olives and oils that are exported abroad more than their marketing locally, due to the culture of citizen consumption in Egypt regarding the use of plant products Distorted and local despite the great economic and nutritional value that olive oil in Egypt, and perhaps a high price is another reason in this culture for the Egyptian citizen, but the cost of production for this crop is the reason for increasing olive prices, indicating that there are two types of olives that are cultivated in Egypt, A category that is inserted into the manufacture of oils imported from Italy, Spanish and another class known as the table olive that enters food products.
The olive transplant expert stressed that the spread of the phenomenon of cheating olive products manufactured with "black dye" to give olive beads dark black colors and sell them in the market as a natural table olive despite their great danger to health, the manufacture of this type of olive has special storage and manufacturing specifications, adding To sell open green species is also dangerous to health, as they are supposed to be filled with healthy ways in information in order to preserve public health and protect the consumer in the local market, just like the large countries that have achieved a boom in the olive manufacturing system, headed by Italy and Spain, demanding necessarily expanding the cultivation of olive areas Which enter the oil industries, especially since the 5 kilos of olive grains extract approximately a kilo of oils, while the 5 kilos of table olives does not extract only more than 10 grams of oil.
Eng. Ahmed Nabil praised the directives of President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi recently to support the olive file, saying: The crop is one of the most important agricultural crops that can achieve added value in the agricultural manufacturing file in Egypt, and it is given the opportunity for the private sector with more investments in this sector, in addition to the exploitation of thousands of acresIn Egypt to grow these species that achieve the great value, in addition to adopting a national health program to change the culture of the Egyptian consumer to the importance of the health value of the products of this national crop, in addition to tightening control over the birning factories that promote the sale of adulterated olive products.
Engineer Nabil identified a package of claims for the concerned authorities represented in the Council of Ministers and the ministries responsible for the manufacturing, export and agriculture system, on top of which is the necessity of providing more banking facilities at a lower interest coinciding with the state’s support for the Egyptian agricultural exports system, which has achieved a real period of real boom and support for the private sector in Egypt, adding To reconsider the system of support for the prices of raw materials that enter into the manufacture of this crop, and create more global markets for olive manufacturers abroad, especially with the concrete height that Egypt recently achieved in this file and increasing the number of its markets externally, adding that Egypt exports olive and oil factories to America and countries The Middle East and the European Union.
For his part, Dr. Mohamed Rabie, the agricultural expert, stressed that there is a large manufacturing system that is already in place in Egypt on the olive crop, which is the table of table olive manufacturing, which is a large industrial sector that provides hundreds of job opportunities for young people, especially in light of the modern technologies that were introduced in this great vital sector And with the controls adopted by the state regarding the requirements of food safety, and the real crisis facing this strategic crop is the marketing element, which was directed by President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi recently regarding the manufacture and marketing of olives in Egypt, especially after the great boom that Egypt achieved in this crop, Through which a major global state has exceeded competing before the crisis of climate change, and therefore this large national industry needs more attention and capabilities that help in supporting the export bill and increasing our production of oil -producing items, adding that the phenomenon of cheating olive derivatives needs a real confrontation plan to give products Health and safe is an opportunity to compete in the world and marketing within the local markets in Egypt.
“The table olive industry in Egypt is carried out at the highest standards and passes through a number of stages that start from washing the grains, and then comes the storage stage integrated with salts and acids for two months, and then comes the screening and packing step after reaching a certain degree of settlement, to start the last stage of marketing, whether exporting it Abroad or local markets ».. Dr. Rabie continued that there are many governorates that are famous for selling olive derivatives, whether oils and pickles, headed by the oases, Matrouh and Siwa, which are places that include large areas of olives in Egypt, in addition to many ports of the Ministry of Agriculture that sell products Olives in Egypt are reliable sources to buy agricultural products in general and olives and its derivatives in particular, and this of course requires expansion in these approved outlets to sell olive derivatives and products to provide them with the consumer and besiege the adulterated items in the local markets, noting that the table olive products are exported to Peru, South America and Greece, Other popular markets meet many Arab markets.
Rabie pointed out that a strategic research study is also to achieve sustainable development in the Zeiton industry in Egypt and the development of competition capabilities conducted by the head of the Ziton Regional Network at the Union of Agricultural Research Centers in the Near East and North Afrifa, confirmed that the Ziton Ziton Production Contemporary in Egypt operates a large card where it reaches a group of 115 tons of hours Consequently, the quantities that you need are larger compared to the planting, and the ton of zeiton fruits in one season between the average annual total production of 550 thousand tons of approximately and 85 thousand tons in the sense of conditions is intended for the production of the zeit, and the great crop variated between the local and European items that It has been imported from abroad for eighty -century, which recently adapted to the climatic conditions in Egypt, as well as Al -Aded from the shift factories for the Ziton table and contemporary industry, the latest global and approved technological systems, and construction, equipment and operations were supervised by international entities that correspond to food safety requirements.
Dr. Rabie continued that many major factories in Egypt use Spanish roads in the industrial sector in olives in Egypt, for example the use of soda to remove the gallbladder in a short time, which is also proportional to the requirements of food safety.