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					H.E Dr. 
					Al-Zadjali, Tariq Moosa, The Director General of  the Arab 
					Organization for Agricultural Development(AOAD) signed a 
					contract to the value of EGP(1050000) with an Egyptian 
					company  for the  supply of  corn kernel strippers 
					(Ar.Farata) to be  distributed  to small farmers at al- 
					Sharqiya and  al-Minya provinces of Egypt. 
					The purchase 
					of these machines comes under AOAD program for Development 
					of Agricultural Technology and in line with its efforts to 
					provide support to small farmers in order to improve their 
					standards of living. 
					 The 
					purchased strippers will be offered to beneficiary farmers 
					in the said provinces as a grant from AOAD. 
					AOAD is 
					further planning to implement a buffalo distribution project 
					for the benefit of small Egyptian farmers, while continuing 
					with the implementation of it's ongoing one million olive 
					plants project   in Sinai, Egypt.              |