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THE AQUACULTURE RESEARCH LAB BOOSTING FISH PRODUCTION

At a massive Egyptian fish farm in boost production, such as finding cheaper “Now we have been fishing the little
an open field with dozens of ponds of but efficient types of fish feed, which ones, whose weight have reached about
different sizes, fishermen were spreading represents a high cost in fish farming,” 25 or 30 grams, then we move them to the
their nets to collect the Nile tilapia fish and said director of the aquaculture research production ponds to take their production
sort them out for sale based on their size, lab. period,” the production farm manager
returning those too little back to ponds for She continued that CLAR’s researchers explained.
further growth. also help with finding new breeds of fish For his part, the chief researcher at
The research ponds belong to the with fast growth and high reproduction the department of fish health and care,
Central Laboratory for Aquaculture rates, which also serves the overall fish noted that CLAR rents all the 160 large
Research (CLAR), which is based in production in Egypt. production ponds to investors to use the
Sharqia province in northeastern Egypt “Egypt’s annual fish production amounts money for research and development
and belongs to the Agricultural Research to 2.2 million tonnes, 80 percent of which while the ponds still belong to CLAR in
Center of the country’s Ministry of is produced through fish farming,” CLAR the end.
Agriculture. chief told reporters near one of the large
CLAR does not only help aquaculture production ponds.
and pisciculture in Egypt with researches Around 40 small ponds, whose size
and studies conducted on its research is lower than 1 feddan (4,200 square
ponds, but it also boosts the fish production meters) are mainly for research yet they
in Egypt through its production ponds, are productive as well, but not as much
including 160 large ponds stretching on as those 160 large production ponds
an area of nearly 1,200 feddans (over 5 whose size is about 7 feddans (29,400
square km). square meters) each, according to
“CLAR helps increase Egypt’s fish Hamed Mohamed Hamed, manager of the
production via applied research, through production farm and head of the guidance
which our researchers conduct studies to and training department at CLAR.

TRAINING COURSE FAO WITH MALR IN EGYPT TO

CONTROL FALL ARMYWORM

Among the efforts implemented within the importance of the training course During the training, Dr. Hassan Dahi,
the Project (Emergency response to and cooperation with researchers and Professor of Entomology at the Plant
enhance the national capacity of Egypt farmers in order to work on coordinating Protection Research Institute, presented
for early warning, monitoring and research in the coming years in order to sustainable measures in integrated
management of Fall Armyworm), FAO reach viable sustainable solutions. management after identifying the
and MALR conducted a training course pest and how to control it, followed
to identify the pest and its negative The training course was inaugurated by Dr. Amani El Hefny, a consultant at
impacts and how to carry out sustainable by Dr. Khaled Al-Salmouni, head of the the FAO office in Egypt, with a lecture
field measures for control. central administration of the research on early monitoring and warning
stations from the Ministry of Agriculture systems and the use of the FAMEWS
This training course at Sids Station in Egypt. Dr. Thaer Yassin welcomed the application specialized in monotoring
in Beni Sueif Governorate is of high attendees and stressed the importance and early warning of Fall Armyworm and
impact as it is a regional research station of sustainable control of the pest using distributing of Traps and documenting
and include three different stations environmentally safe solutions. Dr. the results of traps in the field, which
concerned with crops, plant pest control Ali Soliman, advisor to the Minister of will facilitate the establishing of control
and animal production, which increases Agriculture for Agricultural Quarantine policies and monitoring the spread of
and phtosanitary, the pest.
stressed the need to
continue transmitting After the presentations, a field visit
the message and was conducted with all the trainees in
communicating with one of the fields of the research station.
farmers for the safe use Practical work was done to identify the
of pesticides. Dr. Sherif pest and its various stages in the field,
Thabet, the station’s and then the FAMEWS application was
director, welcomed the actually used in order to facilitate field
attendees and wished survey and to reach the obstacles that
them a successful users face in order to overcome them.
training session.

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