Arab agricuture experts call for Arab integration to realize food security

Two Arab experts in food agriculture affairs on Wednesday called for coordination and integration among Arab states to achieve food and water security.

They said that agricultural resources in the Arab countries are available, but are not balanced.

In the opening speech before the conference of strategy of agricultural production in the Arab World, Director of the Agricultural Research Center in Egypt Saad Nasser, said realizing agricultural integration among Arab Countries would make them exporting countries to food worldwide.

The cost of implementing food and water security programs is less than importing food from non-Arab states, Nasser said.

He added that Arab states must coordinate their agricultural policies, expand inter-trade and removing commercial obstacles in order to realize food and water integration.