Egypt and EU delegation agree on joint working group to expand medicinal plant cultivation

Egypt's agriculture minister met an EU-Italian delegation to discuss expanding medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation and agreed to form a joint working group.

• Agriculture Minister Alaa Farouk met officials of the EU-ZIRA3A rural development program and the Italian cooperation office in Cairo.
• Farouk said expanding medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation is a key opportunity and stressed linking good agricultural practices with export companies.
• The sides agreed to form a joint working group focused on developing the medicinal and aromatic plants sector.
• EU-ZIRA3A, funded by the European Union and run by Italy's AICS, operates in Beni Suef, Assiut and Sohag and targets over 18,000 farmers.