Food security to top agendas of Sudan Egypt meeting
April 28, 2008 (CAIRO) — Food security projects are expected to top the agendas of the joint Egypt -Sudan committee, which will take place late next month.
The joint Egyptian-Sudanese Committee will hold its session late next May under the chairmanship of Sudanese Vice President, Ali Osman Taha and Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif.
The talks will be dominated by food security in light of rising cereals prices and supply shortages on world markets.
The Sudanese International Cooperation Minister Tijani Fadil is to visit Egypt during the coming days, where he will meet the Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Abul Naga, to prepare for the meetings of Egyptian-Sudanese Higher Committee which will be held on 25 and 26 of next May.
The agenda of the meetings includes, in addition to the traditional files, ways to develop the economic and investment relations in the light of the challenges facing the Arab food security and to achieve the aspirations of the two countries in term of economic integration.
The economic cooperation will be extensively discussed at meetings of technical committees and the Supreme Committee in order to reach an efficient partnership in investment strategy. The talks also will include how to increase bilateral trade between the two countries.
who arrived last year to about 750 million dollars in the Egyptian side and 100 million dollars in Sudanese side.
The Sudanese side during the meetings is expected to present a comprehensive plan of investment projects that Sudan is seeking to attract investments to, including the most important projects of food security, major grain crops and oil crops.
In addition the meetings should develop a comprehensive vision to support and develop the joint Egyptian-Sudanese company for agricultural integration.
The two sides did not exploit vast land owned by the company, which has an area of 170 thousand acres that can be cultivated jointly with wheat, maize, sugar beet and oil crops, especially in light of the availability of suitable conditions of the agricultural production of these crops to achieve self-sufficiency.
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Food security to top agendas of Sudan Egypt meeting
Food first, that is very important. The cost of food is now going up because we are sharing food with Machines.The idea of making fuel from food stuff is very scary especially from sugar cane that the sudan is now thinking directing
it energy needs towards just because Brazil is so doing.Even in a country like Canada where there is plenty of food prices are going up because human and machines are going to share food distribution. Produce food for human consumption only in order for the food security to work.