Pesticides committee honors engineer for biological pest-control project

Egypt's Agricultural Pesticides Committee has honored engineer Maha Khaled for launching a project producing biological control agents as alternatives to chemical pesticides.

• The committee, chaired by Hala Abu Youssef, honored engineer Maha Khaled Abdel Hamid Mohamed for her biological pest-control production initiative under directives from Agriculture Minister Alaa Farouk.
• Abu Youssef said Khaled serves as a certified trainer in the committee's rural women's pesticide-safety program in Minya governorate.
• Khaled said the pesticide applicators' qualification program was a turning point that enabled her to launch an investment project benefiting rural communities and Egyptian agriculture.
• Khaled received the committee's shield at a ceremony attended by committee secretary Mohamed Abdullah Saleh.