Monography on Olive Oil and Livestock Cooperatives in Egypt

Description

Tecnologias y Servicios Agrarios SA, (TRAGSATEC), has been commissioned by Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECID), to execute the Development Program for Livestock Artificial Insemination and Modernization of Olive Oil Production. Within this context, NSCE has been subcontracted to execute the study “Assessment of Livestock and Olive Oil Cooperatives in Egypt”. The objective of the project is to provide TRAGSATEC with an assessment study on the livestock and olive oil cooperatives in Assuit and Fayoum governorates respectively. This entails the undertaking of sector survey with a full functional review of the agricultural cooperative system in Egypt.

Services

In order to achieve its objectives, NSCE provided TRAGSATEC with a team of field researchers, coordinators and a consultant in the field who were assigned to conduct a research on the history of the cooperatives in the past 15 years, field sampling, group meetings with cooperative members and individual farmers. The team is expected to provide information on the technical, managerial and organizational condition of the cooperatives and formulate recommendations for improvement.