EGYPT - "Poultry industry returned to the level before the appearance of bf"

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Abaza: Poultry industry returned to the level before the appearance of bird flu
July 15, 2007

Cairo - Said Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Strategy to deal with the avian flu disease and rehabilitation of poultry industry in Egypt has found appreciation from many nations and international organizations as the World Bank grant of seven million dollars to contribute to the implementation of this strategy.

Abaza said that the Egyptian government signed a protocol with the American side would make America grant of 24 million dollars to the Ministries of Health and Agriculture and Land Reclamation to implement this strategy.

This came in a speech Amin Abaza, which was delivered on his behalf, Dr. Saad Nassar Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, at the opening of the workshop held at the headquarters of Labor Foreign Relations Ministry of Agriculture on methods of management and control of avian flu, organized by the ministries of agriculture and land reclamation, Health and Population in Egypt and external collaboration with the Ministries of Agriculture and Health, Thailand with support from the French government and the United Nations Development Program.

Abaza added that the Social Fund for Development provided by the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development loan estimated at $86 million to contribute to the restructuring and modernization and the rehabilitation of poultry industry in Egypt, especially the establishment of massacres and refrigerators.

He confirmed that the poultry industry in Egypt may recover since the emergence of bird flu disease in February of 2006 as production returned to the level prior to the emergence of disease as prices returned to normal.

He pointed out that the prevention of avian influenza and disease control and combating requiring international cooperation and the exchange of experiences, knowledge and establish channels of communication between the States and the exchange of effective strategies for the prevention of disease and control, combat and because of the rapid spread of avian influenza disease across continents and countries of the world and because of this disease caused economic losses social and mortality among humans.

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$117 million awarded to face an international bird flu
July 16, 2007

Fathi Abdel Aal wrote:

Mr. Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation said Egypt is currently implementing a strategy for dealing with the bird flu disease, and the restructuring and modernization of poultry industry in collaboration with a number of international organizations, especially the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Epidemic Office and the United Nations Development Program, World Bank and World Health Organization financing capacity of 117 million dollars in the form of grants from international bodies.

This came in a speech read on his behalf by Dr. Saad Nassar Minister's advisor, said yesterday during the opening of the International Workshop on Methods of Combating Disease Avian Influenza organized in cooperation between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Health in Egypt, France, and Thailand, with the participation of 19 Arab and African countries, the minister pointed out that the workshop is aimed at the States participating in the building and test labs, developing means of monitoring and dissemination of awareness among citizens and coordination between governmental bodies and civil society organizations to build a network of information exchange between States, and added that Egypt was keen to provide technical support to African countries through the support of technical cooperation, by hosting delegations 3 States to host a full Sudan Uganda and Tanzania.

He pointed out that the poultry industry started to recover, despite the emergence of some of the hot few of infection after a decline in production of two million chickens daily to 800 thousand chickens, and through addressing the ministries concerned to participate in the national campaign for the disease by providing vaccines and veterinary surveillance and eradication of the hotbeds of disease, and pointed out that Egypt's efforts to combat the disease was appreciated international bodies and organizations, and became Egypt's experience model will be presented at numerous conferences and forums, the World Bank has provided a grant of seven million dollars, and the American side last week 24 million over 3 years.

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