Important information regarding the Arab Summit meeting, which is taking place today in Algeria, including its agenda discussing Arab food security, was made public by the Egyptian economist Nader Nour El-Din.
The Arabs suffer because they import 65% of their food needs at a cost of $ 100 billion, which increased following the most recent food crisis. They also suffer because of their effect on global crises, the subsequent increases in food costs, and the political reliance they impose.
Nour El-Din stated that Sudan is planting approximately 32 million acres, of which 83% are planting on rainy rain, and that it has approximately 200 million acres that can be investigated; however, Sudan imports 30% of its grain needs and receives significant nutritional assistance, and it should be noted that this should not be the case. It is the first of the pills to declare that it is self-sufficient, that it can replace the nutritional gaps in the Arab world, that it is a role model for self-sufficiency in food, and that he must help himself first.
“Additionally, political instability and rebel attacks on investors’ lands occasionally, and the fact that luring investments requires security stability and securing the future of these investments, and there is another problem that Sudan allots agricultural lands to investors without providing them with a basic structure and requires them to dig wells, create canals, drains, pave roads, and occasionally The lands need to be reclaimed and improved.
He emphasised that it is desirable to attract Arab agricultural investments that there are irrigated crops in the fields throughout the year, and not just during summer rains, and it is anticipated that agricultural lands must be prepared for agricultural investment in order to attract investments.
He pointed out that logistical practises are also lacking, and that exporting and shipping agricultural products takes much longer than it should to encourage investment.
At the end, he posed the following question: “Do the Arabs still rely on the international stock exchanges to import their food, or do investments go to other countries with agricultural abundance in Asia, Africa, Europe, South and North America for the simplicity of logistical processes, the speed of food transportation to their country, the abundance of water, and the fertile soil?”
Origin: RT
Nasser Hatem was in Cairo.
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