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Egyptian Agricultural Instructors, all of them women, meet Yoram Kadmon from CINADCO during a 3-week-long course in Israel

Since the signing of the Peace Treaty in 1978 until Egypt unilaterally suspended development cooperation with us in 2002, Egypt and Israel have closely cooperated in the field of agriculture.

Israel actively cooperated with Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation on Egypt’s national program of land reclamation (the “Mubarak project”) aimed at resettling and training unemployed university graduates on desert lands along the Nile delta. Cooperation centered on on-site demonstration activities, including professional training programs and the establishment of an irrigation demonstration plot at the Maryut International Training Center in Nubariya, Egypt and short-and long-term consultancies. In the context of this program, over 5,000 Egyptians were trained both in Israel and in Egypt and many joint R&D projects were successfully launched.