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January 01, 2016 at 02:18AM
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Who owns the agricultural land in Egypt now !?
By accident, I stumbled last Thursday on that news or rather official report about agricultural land in 2015 that says a lot actually.
In May 2015, Egypt's ministry of agriculture issued a statement saying only half of Egypt's farmers own less than 15% of agricultural land in the country !!
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Yes, you read it right, half of Egyptian farmers own less than 15% of agricultural land in the country and each farmer owns between one to four kirats.
I do not know who owns the rest 85% of agricultural land in the country and whether if this means the return of the old feudalism or we have a new shape of feudalism in the country.
Seriously , who owns the majority of agricultural land in Egypt now !?
The report blames the migration of farmer to cities as a reason for the decline in the rate of agricultural land possession.
I believe that this is just one of the main of the reasons why there is a huge declare in the rate of agricultural land possession and that it took many decades to reach that percentage.
The report also says that decline in agricultural land possession led to the increase of poverty rate in the countryside as well the increase in building on agricultural land.
Again I believe actually that the increase of poverty rate and the bad economic and governmental decisions are behind that decline.
One of the examples of those governmental decisions is how the government cut the cotton subsidies in January and later in August it decided to ban cotton imports to support the local cotton industry but after 8 days only it reserved it.
Many farmers now sell their land or build on it because they can not afford to maintain it.
I am afraid that percentage will decline more and more with a bad economic situation and new upcoming taxes.
In its statement, the Egyptian ministry of agriculture said that half of Egypt's farmers were estimated by 10 million.
On the other hand, in a conference attended by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to celebrate the National Farmer day in September 2014, it was said that number of Egyptian farmers reached to 50 million !!
I do not know which number is correct to be honest.
In late December, the Egyptian president inaugurated his new megaproject to reclaim 1.5 million Fedans in the Western desert.
I just wish that the Egyptian officials have a closer look to the old Nile valley agricultural land, the dying fertile agricultural land for real before spending millions on reclaiming the desert.
In May 2015, Egypt's ministry of agriculture issued a statement saying only half of Egypt's farmers own less than 15% of agricultural land in the country !!
Yes, you read it right, half of Egyptian farmers own less than 15% of agricultural land in the country and each farmer owns between one to four kirats.I do not know who owns the rest 85% of agricultural land in the country and whether if this means the return of the old feudalism or we have a new shape of feudalism in the country.
Seriously , who owns the majority of agricultural land in Egypt now !?
The report blames the migration of farmer to cities as a reason for the decline in the rate of agricultural land possession.
I believe that this is just one of the main of the reasons why there is a huge declare in the rate of agricultural land possession and that it took many decades to reach that percentage.
The report also says that decline in agricultural land possession led to the increase of poverty rate in the countryside as well the increase in building on agricultural land.
Again I believe actually that the increase of poverty rate and the bad economic and governmental decisions are behind that decline.
One of the examples of those governmental decisions is how the government cut the cotton subsidies in January and later in August it decided to ban cotton imports to support the local cotton industry but after 8 days only it reserved it.
Many farmers now sell their land or build on it because they can not afford to maintain it.
I am afraid that percentage will decline more and more with a bad economic situation and new upcoming taxes.
In its statement, the Egyptian ministry of agriculture said that half of Egypt's farmers were estimated by 10 million.
On the other hand, in a conference attended by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to celebrate the National Farmer day in September 2014, it was said that number of Egyptian farmers reached to 50 million !!
I do not know which number is correct to be honest.
In late December, the Egyptian president inaugurated his new megaproject to reclaim 1.5 million Fedans in the Western desert.
I just wish that the Egyptian officials have a closer look to the old Nile valley agricultural land, the dying fertile agricultural land for real before spending millions on reclaiming the desert.
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January 03, 2016 at 01:43AM
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The Egyptian Museum in Cairo , Egypt.
The famous statue of king Djoser from old kingdom , unfortunately the light reflection was extremely bad.
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January 03, 2016 at 05:40PM
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So it is not all about joining ISIS
Last week, Egypt's National Council For Human Rights "NCHR" requested the ministry of interior officially to reveal its information about the documented case of 101 people in Egypt forcibly disappeared according to international standards.
On Saturday and on a phone interview on CBC TV channel, the ministry of interior's spokesperson police General Abu-Bakr Abdel Karm revealed 83 of those names sent by the NCHR were detained in cases already by security forces.
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| Head of NCHR former Nasser's minister Mohamed Fayek with current minister of interior Magdy Abdel Ghafer |
Yes for months, Egyptian officials kept saying that the disappeared youth joined ISIS whether in Syria or Libya.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi himself said so in an interview with BBC Arabic last November.
Since then the Pro-regime media kept repeating that as a concrete fact without asking questions about the youth who disappeared and appeared later in police custody or why on the first place that bad Egyptian youth joining ISIS were able to flee the country.
The Pro-regime TV hosts like Khaled Saleh and Ahmed Moussa have reached the level of airing old videos for Egyptian ISIS fighters captured in Kobani from six months ago and showing Egyptian Al-Qaeda fighters arrested in KSA from 2006 claiming that there were among the reported cases of forcible disappearance in Egypt now !! Even if there is a couple of cases involving young men who joined ISIS, it is not an excuse not to reveal their destiny for their families or the public.
There was allegedly one case of a young man whose father and friends reported him missing and was believed to be forcibly disappeared but it turned out that he joined ISIS-affiliated Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis group in North Sinai. That young man already was among the militant attackers who killed a judge and two policemen in an attack on the Swiss Inn hotel in Al-Arish city during the Parliamentary elections in November.
That was the only case of its kind I have read about.
One against dozens of cases like the case of Esraa El-Taweel and her friends or the case of Amr Ali, the current coordinator of April 6 youth Movement. Egypt's Journalists syndicate demanded to know the fate of journalist Mahmoud El-Sakka who was believed to be forcibly disappeared from 3 days ago.
On Saturday, the General prosecutor declared his detention for 15 days pending investigations on charges of allegedy publishing false news. The arrest of El-Sakka came as the latest of on-going crackdown by security forces against political activists before the next 25 January revolution anniversary.
BY the way, there has been no information whether official or non-official about Mostafa Massouny or Ashraf Shehata till that day.
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Kodak Agfa presents : Sharkia's countryside
Okay people, here is the first Kodak Agfa photo story for 2016.
Despite those photos were taken in May 2015, I think this is the perfect time to share them publicly.
In May 2015, I went twice to Sharkia governorate, North Delta and took a couple of photos in the countryside there during a family visit there.
Sharkia governorate is already the third populated governorate in the country. I went to the town of Faquos, to one of its villages specifically.
Most of the population there work in farming just like they have done for thousand of years.
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Despite big towns like Faquos can not escape modernity till the Egyptian countryside is still keeping its characteristics from thousands of years.
Still the red bricks building are approaching indeed into the agricultural land madly.
You can see new red brick houses as well the old mud huts with Satelitle antennas over it in a strange mix between old and new.
I went during the mid seasons where farmers complete harvesting their winter crop from wheat and are getting ready for their summer crops from rice.
Some farmer already began to cultivate rice in the land. Most of the land is rented by the farmers for its owners annually.
Of course my agricultural information here depend mainly on the answers I got for the questions I asked there.
Women their husbands in farming just they have always done in the Nile valley.
If women are not working with their husbands in the field, then they bring food to them at the fields.
I hope that you like the photos.
This is not my first visit to Sharkia as I went there to visit Fadel Island and the oldest community of Palestinian refugees in the country there in May 2013.
Stil it was my first visit to focus on the countryside in Egypt.
It was beautiful experience and hopefully I will be able to repeat it soon whether in Sharkia or any other governorate in North Delta or Upper Egypt.
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Here is the complete photogallery if you are interested to see it all.
Of course this is not the best photo story about Egypt's countryside but it is my first
Despite those photos were taken in May 2015, I think this is the perfect time to share them publicly.
In May 2015, I went twice to Sharkia governorate, North Delta and took a couple of photos in the countryside there during a family visit there.
Sharkia governorate is already the third populated governorate in the country. I went to the town of Faquos, to one of its villages specifically.
Most of the population there work in farming just like they have done for thousand of years.
Despite big towns like Faquos can not escape modernity till the Egyptian countryside is still keeping its characteristics from thousands of years.
Still the red bricks building are approaching indeed into the agricultural land madly.
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| Red bricks buildings coming closer and closer to the agricultural land |
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| This is the agricultural land after the winter harvest according to what I have been told |
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| An old mud hut |
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| A mud hut that was repaired by red bricks |
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| An old mud hut |
I went during the mid seasons where farmers complete harvesting their winter crop from wheat and are getting ready for their summer crops from rice.
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| Harvest kept in that place. I feel if winds blow up, it will be like gone with the wind technically |
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| The harvest on spot |
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| The harvest in the land |
Some farmer already began to cultivate rice in the land. Most of the land is rented by the farmers for its owners annually.
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| The rice field |
Of course my agricultural information here depend mainly on the answers I got for the questions I asked there.
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| Onion field |
Women their husbands in farming just they have always done in the Nile valley.
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| A lady farmer working in harvest |
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| Transferring stuff to the field |
If women are not working with their husbands in the field, then they bring food to them at the fields.
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| Ladies resting in harvest |
I hope that you like the photos.
This is not my first visit to Sharkia as I went there to visit Fadel Island and the oldest community of Palestinian refugees in the country there in May 2013.
Stil it was my first visit to focus on the countryside in Egypt.
It was beautiful experience and hopefully I will be able to repeat it soon whether in Sharkia or any other governorate in North Delta or Upper Egypt.
Of course this is not the best photo story about Egypt's countryside but it is my first
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January 05, 2016 at 07:15PM
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Happy Orthodox Christmas 2016
Happy Orthodox Christmas to all Christians celebrating it around the globe tonight especially the Egyptian Orthodox Christians.
Happy feasts.
Happy feasts.
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| An old illustration showing the holy family entering Egypt |
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More shocking numbers about the Egyptian Countryside that nobody cared for in 2015
There are more shocking numbers about Egypt's Countryside that were announced in 2015 and nobody cared to discuss them despite how much revealing they are just like the agricultural land ownership numbers.
In late December, Egypt's Central Agency for public mobilization "CAPMAS" issued a report about its complete survey in Egypt's countryside and its characteristics.
According to that survey, 75% of Egyptian villages do not have sewage systems.
Yes, 3/4 of villages in that survey conducted on 4655 villages across Egypt do not have access to a sewage system.
The report added that even in the rest 25% lucky villages with sewage system things are not that smooth.
According to CAMPAS' report, the sewage system in 47.5% of the villagesthat got them are either blocked or not working properly.
Those numbers are really quite interesting because we are speaking about a sample of villages, after all, not all the villages in Egypt or for instance, the shanty towns.
In an TV interview with CBC Extra channel earlier this week, the spokesperson of Egypt's Holding Company for Water and Wastewater Colonel Mohi El-Din El-Serafy "yes Col." stated that 85% of the villages in Egypt did not have real sweage system.
He added that his company needed LE 100 billion to set up sewage systems in all those villages.
I do not need to say that the lack of sewage system facilitates the spread of disease.
Now 66.3% of those villages need paved roads as according to the survey.
Nevertheless, there are good numbers in the survey ....somehow.
97.5% of the villages in the survey are connected to the public electricity network but 38.4% of those villages report a powercut every couple of days. "Powercuts are actually common in Upper Egypt".
96.5% of the villages in the survey are connected to the public network of water still 15.1% of those villages report water cutoffs on a daily basis while 37% of the villages witness water cutoffs on a weekly basis.
95.3% of the villages in the survey got primary schools and 82% of them have got preparatory schools.
Meanwhile, only 18.2% of the villages have got secondary schools.
Also, 59.4% of those villages need new schools.
There are pharmacies in 83.8% of the villages in the survey.
Only 69.7% of the villages have medical units "I do not have to guess the standard of the service there" while only 6% of those villages got a public hospital.
40.5% of those villages need also new medical units.
There are planned parenthood clinics in 51.5% of those villages. I can safely say that it did not stop the Egyptian farmers of having more and more children despite the billions spent on the Planned parenthood programme because simply farmers use their kids as extra hands n the fields thanks to poverty.
1/3 of those villages lack cultural center , bakeries and youth centers.
The CAPMAS survey was conduced in 4655 villages as follows : 12 villages in city governorates "Cairo and Giza" , 2700 villages in Nile Delta "Lower Egypt", 1754 villages in Uper Egypt and 189 villages in border governorates "Aswan , New Valley and Marsa Matrouth".
North and South Sinai governorates were not included in that survey.
If we have a true responsible media that is not afraid to ask , we should have an ongoing huge discussion regarding those numbers.
I see those numbers and I wonder where the millions if not billions we have always read about in the newspapers every year in the past 31 years in Egypt allocated for the infrastructure in villages are gone .
Already many of those billions were grants and loans from abroad and yet nothing change.
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Again that survey is limited to a number of villages and not all villages of Egypt.
Sources : Ahram Online and Al-Mal
In late December, Egypt's Central Agency for public mobilization "CAPMAS" issued a report about its complete survey in Egypt's countryside and its characteristics.
According to that survey, 75% of Egyptian villages do not have sewage systems.
Yes, 3/4 of villages in that survey conducted on 4655 villages across Egypt do not have access to a sewage system.
The report added that even in the rest 25% lucky villages with sewage system things are not that smooth.
According to CAMPAS' report, the sewage system in 47.5% of the villagesthat got them are either blocked or not working properly.
Those numbers are really quite interesting because we are speaking about a sample of villages, after all, not all the villages in Egypt or for instance, the shanty towns.
In an TV interview with CBC Extra channel earlier this week, the spokesperson of Egypt's Holding Company for Water and Wastewater Colonel Mohi El-Din El-Serafy "yes Col." stated that 85% of the villages in Egypt did not have real sweage system.
He added that his company needed LE 100 billion to set up sewage systems in all those villages.
I do not need to say that the lack of sewage system facilitates the spread of disease.
Now 66.3% of those villages need paved roads as according to the survey.
Nevertheless, there are good numbers in the survey ....somehow.
97.5% of the villages in the survey are connected to the public electricity network but 38.4% of those villages report a powercut every couple of days. "Powercuts are actually common in Upper Egypt".
96.5% of the villages in the survey are connected to the public network of water still 15.1% of those villages report water cutoffs on a daily basis while 37% of the villages witness water cutoffs on a weekly basis.
95.3% of the villages in the survey got primary schools and 82% of them have got preparatory schools.
Meanwhile, only 18.2% of the villages have got secondary schools.
Also, 59.4% of those villages need new schools.
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| An abandoned school in Faqoos, Sharkia |
Only 69.7% of the villages have medical units "I do not have to guess the standard of the service there" while only 6% of those villages got a public hospital.
40.5% of those villages need also new medical units.
There are planned parenthood clinics in 51.5% of those villages. I can safely say that it did not stop the Egyptian farmers of having more and more children despite the billions spent on the Planned parenthood programme because simply farmers use their kids as extra hands n the fields thanks to poverty.
1/3 of those villages lack cultural center , bakeries and youth centers.
The CAPMAS survey was conduced in 4655 villages as follows : 12 villages in city governorates "Cairo and Giza" , 2700 villages in Nile Delta "Lower Egypt", 1754 villages in Uper Egypt and 189 villages in border governorates "Aswan , New Valley and Marsa Matrouth".
North and South Sinai governorates were not included in that survey.
If we have a true responsible media that is not afraid to ask , we should have an ongoing huge discussion regarding those numbers.
I see those numbers and I wonder where the millions if not billions we have always read about in the newspapers every year in the past 31 years in Egypt allocated for the infrastructure in villages are gone .
Already many of those billions were grants and loans from abroad and yet nothing change.
Again that survey is limited to a number of villages and not all villages of Egypt.
Sources : Ahram Online and Al-Mal
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January 07, 2016 at 02:26PM
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The Egyptian Museum in Cairo. An ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus From the ancient Egyptian Tjuyu and Yuya collection in the Modern kingdom
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Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo. An ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus From the ancient Egyptian Tjuyu and Yuya collection in the Modern kingdom
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