Agriculture publishes new varieties of early maturing and non-greasy maize
The Ministry of Agriculture continued to develop the maize crop, especially the yellow, to spread new varieties of early maturing and low water consumption, and to provide all the production requirements of fertilizers and awareness campaigns and to apply the contractual farming on the "yellow fodder" crop, which allows the farmer to contract his crop at a price and yield, To reduce imports of nearly 9 million tons per year, to achieve profit margins for farmers and to increase production.
Dr. Alaa Khalil, Director of the Field Crops Institute of the Agricultural Research Center, said that since the beginning of the maize crop season, early and high-yielding, low-yielding, The latter especially that maize to meet the needs of the poultry industry of feed and reduce the import of yellow maize through highly productive and registered varieties.
Khalil added that campaigns have been launched to raise awareness campaigns for farmers to increase the cultivated areas of yellow maize to expand the cultivated areas this season to increase production, and there are committees to introduce the new varieties of early maturity and low water consumption, which give high productivity, In the cultivation of maize to reduce imports and raise the self-sufficiency rate of the crop.
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