Arab Agricultural Engineers Union to hold 8th Congress in Tunis

07 May 2010
TUNIS - The Arab Agricultural Engineers Union is holding, next May 13-15 in Tunis, its eighth technical congress on "Arab Complementarity in Developing Farming Education and its Role in Achieving Food Security."

During a press briefing held on Friday in Tunis, Mr. Ghallem Dabbech, Chairman of the Tunisian Engineers Order Council reminded that this Congress is held with the support of the Arab League.

Representatives from 14 Arab countries (Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Palestine, Kuwait and Tunisia) are taking part in this event.

The Environment and Housing Department stemming from the Arab League, the Arab Organisation for Agricultural Development (AOAD), the General Union of Arab Farmers and the Arab Association of Economics and Social Sciences will contribute to the congress works.

Over 50 papers will be presented during this Congress. They will address, in particular such issues as "environment education in Arab universities and institutes," "farming education programmes in the service of strategic goals of sustainable development in the past two decades," "development of agricultural training programme and its impact on agricultural development," "agricultural education programmes and private sector's needs in the Arab world."

The Damascus-based Arab Farming Engineers Union, which was created in 1968, seeks to develop and enhance the level of the promotion, in addition to boosting the exchange of expertise and agricultural research projects among Arab countries.

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