Green Economy
Ensuring the sustainable development of agriculture is of great importance in promoting agricultural modernization and ensuring food security by using the future development of agriculture with limited resources, and following the path of sustainable development that is characterized by self-protection of the environment and resource recycling, which leads to achieving more production in light of the available resources, and is characterized by developmental characteristics With high productivity, high quality and high advantages, the key to promoting the high-efficiency development of agriculture is scientific innovation and agricultural technology, continuous improvement of the rate of land production, resource use and labor productivity, and taking the path of agricultural modernization characterized by high productivity, quality, high efficiency of the environment and safety,
Increasing the total amount of types of agricultural products and constantly thinking about the introduction of new crops, a trend that Misr Tunis has been working on developing since its inception to provide non-traditional crops that are economically profitable for farmers and are tolerant of changing environmental and climatic conditions, such as:
1- Introducing non-traditional crops tolerant of salinity and drought and tolerant of harsh climate and its changes
2- Cultivation of forgotten Egyptian oil plants – castor – jojoba – safflower – canola.
3- Cultivation of grain plants supplementary to wheat, rice – quinoa – millet, sorghum and buckwheat
4- Cultivation of medicinal and aromatic herbs and work to provide value-added services for these plants to increase the profitability of Egyptian farmers and producers wishing to export or supply them locally to various pharmaceutical and food companies.
6- Cultivation of non-traditional animal feeds such as bonicam, silicornia and azolla
Misr Tunis also supports in promoting sustainable development ideas by creating new projects for the production of green fuels, fodder and food by using the available resources in areas suffering from drought and salinity of water and soil using types of non-traditional plants:
1- Jatropha, jojoba and castor which are irrigated with sewage and agricultural drainage.
2- Natural salt-loving plants that grow in salinas, on the shore of seas, lakes and ponds.
3- Cultivated plants resistant to salinity that are irrigated with saline water and grown in saline lands.
Saline Farming
Biosaline farming techniques contribute to achieving biofuel and food production through:
- Improving the production efficiency of some salt-tolerant agricultural crops.
- Increasing the efficiency of using limited fresh water resources.
Providing better opportunities to benefit from high salinity lands to produce salinity-tolerant agricultural crops that achieve an important economic return.
Benefits of growing salt-tolerant plants in arid lands:
1- Providing fresh water. These plants are used for biofuel and some of them are for food. They should not be grown in good, fertile lands.
It is not irrigated with fresh water.
2- Cultivation of it in arid lands with high salinity or high alkalinity, in which there is no hope or economic feasibility of cultivating them, and thus adding new areas that are counted within the productive agricultural lands with high economic returns.
3- Connecting farmers to villages and reclaimed lands in a way that limits migration from the countryside to cities and provides many job opportunities.
4- Improving the trade balance and adding new resources to the budget that were not available before, as well as saving some of our oil consumption and contributing to bridging the food gap.