"Education" signs a cooperation protocol with Apt Associates Egypt to promote agricultural business in the Egyptian countryside

The Ministry of Education and Technical Education signed a cooperation protocol with Apt Associates Egypt - the project to enhance agricultural business in the Egyptian countryside - funded by USAID, with the aim of cooperation in preparing, implementing and financing training programs aimed at raising the technical, marketing and administrative capabilities of mentors, teachers and students And graduates of agricultural schools, and provide skills training opportunities for students outside the school in farms and companies and under the supervision of the school.
The protocol was signed by Dr. Mohamed Mujahid, Deputy Minister of Education and Technical Education for Technical Education, and Dr. Walid Salam, project manager.
Mujahid explained that the protocol is in light of the ministry’s efforts to develop technical education and the growing interest in advancing agricultural technical education. To get a decent opportunity in the labor market.
He pointed out that the ministry seeks to assist distinguished graduates in obtaining job opportunities in private sector farms and food processing companies to work as technicians, agricultural extension workers, marketing and quality specialists, and to develop entrepreneurship skills for students and graduates to help them start their small profit-generating projects, which helps in eliminating unemployment.
Dr. Walid Salam, director of the project to enhance agricultural business in the Egyptian countryside, said that the cooperation protocol with the Ministry of Education and Technical Education leads to the integration of the objectives of the project to enhance agricultural business in the Egyptian countryside, which aims to improve incomes, living life and livelihoods for one hundred and twenty thousand farmers and families. rural areas in Upper Egypt and the Delta, including small farmers and smallholders, agricultural workers, women and entrepreneurs, as well as the integration of young agricultural graduates from universities and agricultural secondary schools into the labor market.
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