FAODA Achievements

Cooperation with counterparts:

• Ministry of agriculture through agri. Guidance division and Agri. researchers division

• Integrated pest management project (I.P.M) Fayoum.

• Non Governmental Organization center (N.G.O) through funding a project (maintenance of natural resources) to our association.

• Agricultural Research Center (Central Lab For Organic Agriculture) through working as a trainers & Organizer for the national campaign for training on organic cultivation (Trained 1800 farmers in Fayoum).

• AERI Institutional Linkage Project, Midwest Universities Consortium for    

• International Activities (MUCIA), Inc. University of Illinoi.

• Cooperazione per lo Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti (COSPE) through registered 115 Farms from the Rural Sustainable project of Wadi Rayan in ECOA as an Organic Farms.

• North South Consultant Exchange (NSCE) through working with the groups of hand craft.

• Faculty of Agriculture – Fayoum University,  as a member in the external advisory committee for training Students.

• Business Enterprises Support Tools center (BEST).

• SAFE project (CARE Egypt – Fayoum office).

• Egyptian Non Governmental Organization center (ENGO) through funding a project (Helping farmers for preventing the use of pesticides for producing safety food & protect our children) to our association.

•  Holland Water Management- Fayoum project.

•  United States Agency for International Development, Egypt (USAID)through funding a project for helping the poor rural families by giving them a pregnant Goat to pay it back in 12 months (Micro financial loan).

•  E3OP & World Bank through funding a project for Environmental Education in Sex schools in Yousef El – Seddeqe district – Fayoum governorate.

•  Wadi Rayan Protected Area (WRPA) through cooperation in the awareness campaigns about the PA and keeping the environment clean.  

• JTZ Saudi Arabia through trained 2 Saudi agronomist on Organic agriculture for one month.

Training Events:

• Post harvest training course (California University U.C DAVIS) Marriott hotel CAIRO- EGYPT.

• Policy Advocacy training course (ALEB) June2004.

• Marketing and communications for association from 14/9/2004   to 16/9/2004   (Egase - Siba) - Cairo – Industrial Building.

• Financial Management training course (FAYOUM) September2004.

• Strategic plane training course (FAYOUM) October2004.

• Organic Agriculture training course (IPM – Holland –WICC institute) May-June 2005.

• Fair trade training course (MUCIA – ITALY- IMC office - Senigalia) August 2005

• Drying herbs training course (MUCIA – Germany – Detzil Institute) September 2005.

 Advocacy Campaigns:

• Aware farmers about the dangerous of the bad usage of the irrigating water canals.

• Aware the youth professional staff about the importance of the maintenance of natural resources.

• Aware farmers about the dangerous of the usage of pesticides in our agriculture production.

• Leading symposiums with Farmers and the decision makers to find out a radical solution for the Organic agriculture problems in our governorate.

 Joined Local and International Exhibitions:

• The vice president Eng. Moamen Kamal and board member Eng. Ahmed A/moez joined the Anuga Trade Fair – Köln – Germany (October. 2003 ) .

• The vice president Eng. Moamen Kamal and board member Eng. Ahmed Abdul-Moez joined the Biofach Trade Fair - Nurnberg – Germany (Feb.2004) as a representative to the association and to there own company (United).

• Participated the second exhibition and conference for Organic Cultivation (the Association and United Company) Cairo – Egypt (March. 2004).

• Participated the first Environment Friendly Agricultural Inputs Exhibition and workshop (May 2004).

• Participated the Environmental industries and Organic Agricultural Inputs Exhibition and workshop (Fayoum University April 2006).

• Participated in Terra Madre conference & exhibition (Turin - Italy) October 2006.

• Participated the Fifth exhibition and conference for Organic Cultivation Cairo – Egypt (April. 2007).

• Participated in Terra Madre conference & exhibition (Turin - Italy) October 2008.

• Participated in the Mediterranean conference about rural sustainable in oasis been held in Tunisia.

Field Experiments:

• 28-1-2004 with the cooperation of horticulture research institute in the Agriculture research center – Cairo –Egypt , under the supervision of Dr. Saad Elshal the first experiment on the effect of Humic acid in calendula field is been done in El-Basionia area.

• 6-2-2004 the second experiment on the effect of Humic acid in Alpha Alpha, Wheat, Sugar beat and negilla fields in El-Basionia area.

• 24-6-2004 carried out the first experiment for atonic and tracer24%sc on Cotton and tomato fields in Abu Elsaood area.

• 6/6/2006 carried out the first experiment for Shitocare on Cotton in EL-Medany farm El-Basionia area.