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 The project focuses on poverty reduction in the rural
areas of Delta.
 It aims at efficiently contributing to the
improvement of the agricultural area that extends on a surface
of around 56,000 feddan (around 30,000 hectares). Moreover, the
project proposes an approach for social and human development in
the communities supporting the culture of associationism.
The
main activities consist in
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the promotion of investments in the
agricultural sector,
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the development of new specific financial
schemes for the rural communities,
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the promotion of activities
destined to the economic enhancement of women.
The Italian
contribution features in a financial context where other donors
participate, in particular, the international organization IFAD
that has signed a credit of 19 million US $ with the
Egyptian government.
OTHER INFORMATION
The Project's Objectives:
 West Nubariya
Rural Development Project aims at improving the socio-economic and the
environmental conditions of the beneficiaries settled in the project
areas through the following goals:
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Achieving social unity, developing participation in local communities,
sustainable settlement. This can be achieved through improving the
small farmers' houses, supporting the infrastructure and the services
in addition to providing food ration to the settlers' families.
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Planting crops that increase the income with the provision of
technical assistance necessary for achieving the maximum benefit from
the available resources in addition to using the modern applications
that proved success in the field.
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Developing the livestock in project area, providing technical
assistance for selecting breeds and methods of breeding/fattening
suitable for local environment, and veterinary care.
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Better utilization of water, fertilizers and pesticides to obtain the
highest production rate without harming or polluting the environment.
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Allowing the target groups to obtain the credit services with easy
conditions to be used in the local activities so as to improve the
national economy.
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Increasing the household income through establishing micro/small
productive enterprises with low costs. These enterprises may depend on
agricultural or livestock or non-agricultural production. The
project's activities can present samples to these successful
enterprises for the beneficiaries with guiding them to know how to
obtain the loans that will help them to start these enterprises.
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Helping the farmers to market their products using the best marketing
methods that suit each of them.
Project Area:
The
project area lies to either side of the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road
along for more than 100 km south of Alexandria of an approximate area
of 256 000 feddan located within the region of three governorates
Alexandria, Beheira and Matrouh.
1.
The
primary project area covers some 56 000 fd and comprises the two latest Noubaria
reclamation zones of El Entelak Zone "Bustan Extension" (27 810 fd)
and Tiba Zone "Branch # 20" (28 190 fd).
2.
The
secondary project area
covers four new land zones in Noubaria namely Sugar Beet, El Hammam,
West Noubaria and El Bustan, together comprising an area of almost
200 000 fd.
Project Target Groups:
The project's
activities serve the following categories:-
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The jobless
graduates settled through Mubarak Scheme (21660 males & females).
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Small Farmers
(4549 males & females)
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Old land Tenants
(9976 males& females)
The total number
of the target groups is 36,185 beneficiaries in addition to their
family members .
The
Project's
Components:
First: The
Technical Operations Component:
This component
includes three sub - components:
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Plant Production:
It aims at
improving the quality and quantity of the agricultural production
through:
Providing
agricultural extension for the beneficiaries, and specialized
technical knowledge in the field of selecting the best kinds of seeds.
In addition to introducing suitable crop patterns that do not exhaust
the soil or destroy its natural elements.
It also looks
forward to rationalize the use of fertilizers and pesticides that harm
the environment especially in these fertile new lands in order to
acquire a distinguished agricultural production suitable for
exportation.
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Livestock Production:
This activity
aims at increasing the number and the kinds of animals in the project
areas, choosing the best breeds that can accommodate with the
conditions of the project areas, giving special attention to the
provision of the veterinary care and a full demonstration of the
successful farm samples that can be applied easily. In addition to
selecting the samples that do not cost too much and which have similar
features to the limited possibilities of finance and area that the
project offer to the beneficiaries. Encouraging the
beneficiaries to own more animals will lead to many benefits like
improving the standard of living of their families from one side and
from the other side; it will improve the natural and chemical
properties of the soil through the manure resulting from the animals.
Another benefit will be that of strengthening the factors of
accommodation and settlement in the new lands for the beneficiaries of
the project.
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Water Management:
This activity
aims at rationalizing the usage of available irrigation water and
training the farmers to use and maintain the modern irrigation systems
used in the new lands, which is totally different from the irrigation
methods that they used to deal with in the old lands where they came
from. This activity
also focuses on encouraging the establishment of water users
associations among beneficiaries. Such associations are important for
solving the irrigation problems and also for obtaining the required
finance for the operation & maintenance costs for the pumps and
irrigation canals and drains in these areas.
Second: Community Development and Organization Component:
 This component
aims at solving the problems of the community facing the beneficiaries
in the different activities that serve the infrastructure in the
villages to improve the living conditions of these target groups and
their families especially in the first periods of settlement as there
is no source of income since the land is not cultivated yet and needs
finance for cultivation.
Some of the
component's activities are:
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Improving the
housing conditions "Group B" those of "the tenants" hurt from applying
the law of old land renting. Rehabilitation is done to provide them
with proper houses suitable for them and their families to live in.
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Improving the
infrastructure in the villages of the project areas including the
provision of pure tap water and electricity inside the houses,
supporting the existing health care and educational units, planting
trees in the streets, providing the services of garbage and sewage
disposal in addition to other services necessary for the community.
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Provision of
food rations that include the basic elements for the beneficiaries and
their families to establish a moderate level of food supply for the
family members during the first period of their settlement as there is
no sufficient source of income.
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Supporting the
establishment of the local cooperatives for implementing activities
useful for serving the villages in different social/economical
activities.
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Giving special
attention to the rural woman and making her aware of the importance of
effective participation in establishing small enterprises that could
be practiced in side the houses to help increasing the income, in
addition to training her on the different skills for the benefit of
her family concentrating on the importance of spreading knowledge
among women about family planning, health care, and literacy for the
settlers' family members.
Third: Marketing Component:
This component
aims at confronting and solving the problems of marketing the
different products that face the beneficiaries, due to the awareness
of the importance of improving these products and creating new sources
of income for the families in addition to providing job opportunities
for the community members in the project areas.
There is a
special concentration on benefiting from the products produced in the
new lands that can be spoiled easily taking into consideration the
details of crop reaping processes which can be useful. Increasing the
agricultural knowledge of the farmers can achieve this aim.
Dealing with the
idea of the products exportation is also important for the benefits of
the beneficiaries and the national income therefore it is necessary to
find all the ways for achieving such a purpose and eliminating all the
obstacles that may hinder this aspirant activity.
Fourth:
The Credit Facilitation and Enterprise Development:
This
activity aims at facilitating the financing process necessary for
funding agricultural, livestock or other related activities
especially at the beginning of cultivation as the land productivity is
poor in this period, and also the land needs finance to reach the
highest productivity.
Since
the revenue of planting the different crops in the new lands is not
sufficient for facing the costs of life and also may not provide job
opportunities for the community members in the project villages, so it
is important to give special attention to the small productive
enterprises which provide additional source of income for the farmers
helpful in improving their standard of living. The concentration is
given to the enterprises which can be applied easily depending on the
available raw materials in the local community.
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