BACKGROUND
 
Egypt and France have an excellent relationship in all economic areas in general and a

unique one in the field of agriculture in particular. In the light of that, the French Food

Aid Counterpart Fund was established in 1983 under the direct authority of the Foreign

Agricultural Relations Department (FAR), MALR which provides integral information about the

cooperation.
The French Food Aid Counterpart Fund aims at strengthening and supporting public sector

development within the scope of activities of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, with its

various sectors and its subsidiary bodies (General Authority for Veterinary Services,

Agricultural Research Center and Desert Research Center), and close cooperation with the

Colleges of Agriculture in various Universities and the National Research Center), through

special projects for the agricultural sector, addressed directly and indirectly to increase

the national food resources and maintain food security and sustainable agricultural

development.

Based on its work nature, the (self-funded) Bureau of French Egyptian Agriculture

Cooperation was established under the direct authority of the Foreign Agricultural Relations

in 1983.

 
 
                   is considered to be the representative of France within the Egyptian

Ministry of Agriculture with its innovative performance .
 

 

 
vto provide information and technical data;

 
v  to support the forms of partnership and communication between economic partners from both

sides;
v  to identify projects to be financed, taking into account the request of Egypt and the

French offer;
v  to follow-up and implement of the projects as well as the agreements and contracts, which

contributes to the continuity of the results and effectiveness of projects.

The success of the BLAFE has already last for almost 25 years (1983-2005), during which

the Bureau has managed more than 150 projects being funded from the French Food Aid

Counterpart Fund, with total amount of ABOUT LE 400 million in various areas of agricultural

development and in almost all over the country, reflecting by that the diversity of the

development requirements.
 
On the last meeting of the French- Egyptian coordination committee, it's approved to finance

number of projects. The most important approved are as follows:
 
è       Establishing Extension Center for milk collection with an amount of L.E. 15.536.552

for a period of 5 years. The Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research

Center (ARC) in participating with the French Institute for Animal Breeding are responsible

for carrying out the project.
 
 
 
è    The Integrated Study for Collecting Data through CIAP in the land of the Delta and the

Valley. The project is financed through a joint- fund from French European FACF by an amount

estimated at L.E. 15.2 million (LE 3 million from French FACF and the rest is from European

Food Aid Counterpart Fund). The project is implemented through the Central Laboratory for

Agricultural Climate (CLAC), Agricultural Research Center (ARC) in cooperation with IGN

France International under the supervision of the President of Agricultural Research Center.