Ministry of Agriculture Recommends Wheat Growers to Increase Product

The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in Egypt issued recommends wheat growers to increase productivity and escape fallouts of changeable weather over the period to come.

The ministry recommended wheat growers to beware of the dormancy phenomenon during the current period, in which the plant is in a horizontal position instead of vertically, which affects the yield.

For his part, Mohamed Ali Fahim, head of the Climate Change Information Center at the Ministry of Agriculture, explained that "in light of the current climatic conditions, work must be done to protect wheat from dormancy, especially with what is expected of temporary gusts of active winds during separate times of this week in the period from Saturday to next Thursday."

Fahim noted that "dormancy causes a loss in crop productivity estimated at about 20 to 25% in many cases.

He warned that the phenomenon makes it difficult to harvest the crop and increases costs, just as the grains resulting from wheat plants are that lay shriveled and small, and the color of the straw produced from those plants is likewise dark, not white.