Agriculture Minister designates CRI to solve cotton problem

To revitalize the cotton harvest and industries in Egypt and solve the current problems with public spinners, Minister of Agriculture Ayman Abu Hadid designated Cotton Research Institute (CRI) Wednesday to design a categorized plan of the will-implanted acres with cotton and appropriate types of plantation in all governorates, according to the Agriculture Ministry’s official webpage.

CRI will draft measures to import the required quantities of cotton for local spinners by rates that do not adversely affect the Egyptian cotton, the ministry announced.

By applying the categorized plan, the Ministry of Agriculture aims to achieve interest for Egyptian farmers, solve the cotton marketing problems, and to encourage local textile sector, Abu Hadid said.

Abu Hadid asked the Textile Industry council to coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture to define a probable price for cotton to encourage farmers, meet the public spinners’ needs, and to promote Egyptian cotton worldwide and nationwide by deploying promotional campaigns to foreign countries.

Cotton harvest is considered one of the vital and original harvests in Egypt and the government, “represented in the Agriculture Ministry,” is working to increase cotton harvests again. It will also present subsidy to public spinners to purchase Egyptian production as they tend to import other types of cottons for lower prices, Al-Maal Business Daily reported.