“Municipality” 2021..between the negatives and the positives

The Ministry of Municipality adopts a set of support programs for 3 sectors: fish and livestock wealth and the agricultural sector. The support includes in-kind materials, money, and veterinary care, providing the needs of farms and farm supplies, and supporting fishermen with money and in-kind materials that contribute to reducing spending and increasing income.
In another context, there are some negatives that citizens complained about during the year 2021 in the three sectors, which include the low prices at which the competent authorities buy the crop from the farms, as well as the inability of most farms to produce throughout the year, as some types of vegetables decrease after the end of the season and prices rise exaggeratedly.
Through many files related to these sectors, which were presented by “the Arabs” in previous times, we monitored the negatives according to the complaints of the owners of farms, ranches and fishermen, as well as the positives through the announced programs of the Ministry of Municipalities to support investors in those sectors.

Pros
The support provided by the state represented by the Ministry of Municipality directly contributed to raising the self-sufficiency rates significantly during the past four years, as the self-sufficiency rate for some products such as vegetables reached 120% and dairy and cheese 107%, and the self-sufficiency rates for red meat and fish increased, which reached the rate of sufficiency Of which 85%, and the concerned authorities in the municipality are working in accordance with the food security strategy that sets plans to raise the self-sufficiency rates of these products to reach certain numbers by the year 2023, when the self-sufficiency rate of fish is scheduled to rise to 90%, and the ministry has put forward and operated about 37 Projects in the three sectors, such as fish and poultry farming, red meat production, and about 10 agricultural projects, which will raise the self-sufficiency rate to 70% for vegetables, 100% for shrimp, 70% for table eggs, and 30% for red meat. The ministry has also proposed many projects that serve this strategy, such as green fodder production projects, which ensure the availability of feed for animal projects to develop the livestock sector in the country. The support provided by the Ministry to these sectors includes financial loan facilities to start investing in these sectors. It also includes providing annual financial support to fishermen, in addition to subsidized fuel slices, ice and refrigerators. As for the agricultural sector, the support covers about 70% of farm expenses, where the municipality provides seeds and fertilizer. Plowing the land and greenhouses, as well as pesticides, in addition to the agricultural guidelines, which are the fruit of the efforts of the Agricultural Research Department, which works hard to ensure a high-quality product and increase the yield. The support also includes fixed electricity segments. And launching a guarantee program to purchase crops from farmers.
As for the livestock sector, the support includes the distribution of fodder and wool shears, and a monthly allowance of fodder and water is given to each farm, in addition to veterinary care and training programs to raise the skills of farm workers to deal with livestock, fattening programs, and purchase and market produce, especially on occasions such as the blessed month of Ramadan. and holidays. The Ministry is currently working on a project to develop farm complexes, where each complex will include a veterinary clinic, markets for farm supplies, as well as markets to provide the needs of its patrons and workers. In addition to a new project to collect and benefit from sheep’s milk.
Negatives
Through the files that we presented in previous times, which include demands from investors in the three sectors, we review some of the negatives that fishermen in the fisheries sector, farmers in the agricultural sector and owners of productive farms in the livestock sector complain about.
The development of the farm
Among the complaints presented by the owners of productive farms is the delay in the development of the farms, as the farm complexes lack infrastructure such as paving and lighting roads, as well as complaints about the lack of veterinary clinics, as they resort to the private sector for speed due to the delay in providing veterinary care for livestock on the farms by the competent authority And the lack of medicines at times. The owners of the farms also complain about the lack of markets and fuel stations near the compounds of the farms, in addition to some proposals such as allowing the construction of more than 5 bricks, as well as increasing the allocations for subsidies from fodder and water.

Farming
In the agricultural sector, farm owners complain about the low prices while buying the agricultural crop and suggest raising prices so that the farmer benefits and feels that he has compensated for his fatigue during the season to produce vegetables with high quality specifications and large quantities that contribute to raising self-sufficiency, and there are complaints about the delay in bulldozers dates at the beginning of the season, in addition Due to the lack of locally desired types of palm seedlings requested by farmers, other types are distributed due to the unavailability of the types that the farmer requests. In addition to the proposals of some farmers to increase subsidies to ensure increased production and improve quality.

fisheries
With regard to the fisheries sector, we have reviewed in previous files many of the fishermen’s demands, such as increasing financial allocations and enabling the fisherman to sell freely, as the prices of fish refrigerators weighing 18 kilos are cheap with companies in the fish markets, proposing to allow the fisherman to sell freely when returning from the sea to impose fish distributed to the regions of the country, as well as increasing the monthly fuel and snow subsidies.