Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly held a meeting last evening on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, to discuss the expansion in establishing a number of modern livestock stations, in the presence of Mr Alaa Farouk, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Engineer Mostafa El-Sayyad, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, and Dr Bahaa El-Ghanam, Executive Director of the Egypt Future Agency for Sustainable Development.
At the start of the meeting, the Prime Minister affirmed that there are directives from His Excellency President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to prioritise the food security file, in particular by expanding the establishment of large-scale livestock stations, which will help increase the supply of live animals on the market and meet citizens’ needs.
Dr Madbouly noted that such projects form part of the state’s efforts to achieve market balance and stabilise red meat prices by building a strong, sustainable national production base that relies on the best scientific methods to raise productivity rates and improve breeds.
During the meeting, Mr Alaa Farouk, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, reviewed the ongoing coordination between the ministry and the Egypt Future Agency for Sustainable Development to provide a sustainable source of highly productive livestock (for fattening and dairy), beginning with contracting suppliers to provide the animals and extending to the provision of veterinary quarantine services, feed, medicines, vaccinations, equipment and necessary means of transport.
The minister added that plans are being studied to expand the West West Minya station to specialise in the Italian-cross buffalo, as well as to establish five neighbouring stations, bringing the total production capacity to 30,000 heads of Italian-cross buffalo, to be implemented over three successive phases.
Dr Bahaa El-Ghanam, Executive Director of the Egypt Future Agency for Sustainable Development, stressed that priority is given to maximising the economic feasibility of these projects so as to ensure the targeted return on the investments injected by the state.
He noted the adoption of an integrated vision to enable and attract the private sector as a key partner in the management and operation systems, consolidating the pillars of institutional governance and ensuring sustainable operation with high efficiency and productivity.
For his part, Engineer Mostafa El-Sayyad, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, explained that successful trials have been carried out in crossbreeding Egyptian buffalo breeds with the Italian buffalo, resulting in a highly productive hybrid buffalo breed for meat and milk, which is well adapted to the local environmental conditions and feeding systems — the breed the project intends to adopt as the target stock for rearing in these stations.