توت الزراعية TUT

Developing the natural silk industry, recycling production waste and production of oyster mushrooms, Empowerment small farmers, young graduates and housewives to establish production units and purchase production from them.

1- The gap in the natural silk market between local production and consumption, where 1.5 tons are produced locally and 350 tons are imported, and this represents a great burden. The reason for this problem is that Egypt was a pioneer in the production of natural silk, but the Egyptian market was invaded by imported Chinese silk at very cheap prices, which made the task It is impossible for local producers to compete with the imported product, and they left this industry. More than 3 million mulberry trees were destroyed. However, in the last 10 years, the prices of imported natural silk have increased, which made us think about restoring Egypt to its position in the production of natural silk. The state is striving to support local producers.

2- The problem of agricultural waste and its disposal in an unsafe and environmentally harmful manner. This problem represents a major cause of global warming and climate change. Egypt produces more than 40 million tons of agricultural waste annually. 

3- The scarcity of the production of oyster mushrooms in Upper Egypt, and therefore it is supplied from Lower Egypt, which leads to an additional burden such as transportation costs and short shelf life. 

4- Unemployment 

5- Poor rural family income and dependence on traditional means of income

Developing the natural silk industry in Egypt by cultivating fields of mulberry trees, using wastewater to irrigate part of the fields, raising silkworms, and recycling agricultural waste for use in growing oyster mushrooms, in addition to providing support services to small farmers, youth, and housewives, providing them with production requirements and training to establish units productivity, follow-up with them, buy production from them, and connect it to manufacturing, exporting, and using companies, and we provide most of our services through the platform and the electronic application

_ Small farmers: They suffer from a lack of income and their dependence on traditional income methods and their need for income methods greater than the same resources they own. Our solution will add an unconventional income method for them and increase their income. This is done by providing them with mulberry trees to plant in their fields indoors or as windbreaks around the field or load on other crops And buying paper from them or supplying them with a natural silk production unit, and this represents a double income _ Young graduates: They suffer from a lack of job opportunities and a lack of support to establish their own project, and we will meet their needs by providing them with training and supplies to establish their own project, follow them up, and buy production from them _ Spinning and weaving companies: by supplying silk cocoons and raw silk to them instead of importing it

_ The loom and weaving companies: by supplying them with raw silk _ Hotels and tourist resorts: supplying oyster mushrooms to them instead of importing or buying them from far away _ Hypermarkets in tourist cities: providing oyster mushrooms for them with an appropriate validity, and also providing the advantage of returns for expired or spoiled products _ Housewives in the villages: by empowering them, training them, and providing them with production requirements and follow-up to establish natural silk production units inside the house and purchase production from them, and thus increase the income of the rural family

*_Mohamed Zakaria 

• Worked at Al-Hawari Company for Agricultural Development, sellinga gricultural pesticides and fertilizers.

▪ I worked in an agricultural greenhouse * El Fakharany * to produce vegetable seedlings.•

 Training on cultivation and production of oyster mushrooms from Wadi

Al Harir Development Company.

▪ I received practical training at El Nidaa Foundation for more than a

month on sericulture and natural silk production.

▪ I got training in the cultivation and production of mushrooms.

• A boot camp on social entrepreneurship from Gemini Africa

▪ Attending several agricultural exhibitions, including (Al-Wadi Exhibition for Modern Agriculture - Al-Ahram Agricultural Exhibition - Vitagro Exhibition for Animal Production - Africa International Exhibition for Food Processing).

• Soil fertility and plant nutrition training at the Desert Research Center.

▪ Training Modern Soilless Farming Systems Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University.

▪ Training dairy products manufacturing from EL-FAKHAMA factory in Alexandria.

▪ Training at Agricultural Research Station in Al Muta'na-Luxor entitled Climate Change and its Impact on the Agricultural Sector and Methods of Reducing it.

▪ Training on pesticide applicators from the Agricultural Pesticides Committee in cooperation with SHORAA Chemical Company.

▪ Start Your Dream Training Camp from MASAAR business incubator.

▪ Attending Techni Draft 2022.

▪ Obtaining the "Own * Your Work " training under the auspices of the population Unit in Luxor Governorate and Banque Misr.

▪ Participating in the Skills Development Program within the framework of the Mashwary project of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and UNICEF.

▪ Participating in the eco-friendly model village project under the supervision of the Committee for

Service, community Development and Social Responsibility in the General Union of Scouts and

Guides – Egypt.

▪ Attending online courses and seminars such as (Recycling agriculture waste and manufacturing compost – Capacity building for students of the Faculty of Agriculture in Egyptian universities – Green houses – Mango production under climate change).

▪ Introduction to Graphic designer from Edrak.

My project won the first place in the category of startups and the title of Ambassador of Luxor

Governorate in the National Initiative for Smart Green Projects under the auspices of His

Excellency the President of the Republic. We were also honored by the Prime Minister at the

National Initiative for Smart Green Projects conference in the presence of many ministers,

governors and many personalities.

▪ Mentor at FAOJect 2022.

▪ Head Academic committee at FAO Model SVU.

▪ Member of Scientific Committee of the Student Union at Faculty of Agriculture, SVU 2020-2021.

▪ Leader of the Information Technology Committee in Life Makers, SVU.

▪ Attending the Luxor Youth Confrontation in its second session.

▪ Participation in the eco-friendly model village project of the General Union of Scouts and Guides.

•Member of PR Committee for season 2 of YLY affiliated to the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

▪ Obtaining an incubation period for the idea of a project recycling agricultural waste and producing organic fertilizers and other products in MASAAR Business Incubator.

▪ One of the founders of Development Club, an activity that aims to learn skills and provide courses for free.

▪ Organized many training courses and scientific visits such as:

- A scientific visit to the export station of the martyr Major General Majed Saleh in Wadi Al-Naseem - Esna.

- Training courses in Food Security Projects - Qena Governorate .

- Training of Agriculture under greenhouses .

▪ Provided training Introduction to IT and training Basics of the Office program and was held in

CREATIVA for the members of the Life Makers Foundation.

• Skills Highlights

▪ Word, PowerPoint, Excel

▪ Project management

▪ Presentation Skill and training.

▪ Graphic Design

▪ Innovative

▪ Complex problem solver

▪ Realtime Landscaping

▪ Strong decision

*_ Fatma Ahmed

E-Marketing

Landscape Engineer

Space engineer

Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, South Valley, Qena Governorate, First semester: Very good, Second semester: Very good, The third academic year: Excellent

• Training on cultivation and production of oyster mushrooms from Wadi Al Harir Development Company.

• Obtaining the "Own * Your Work " training under the auspices of the population Unit in Luxor Governorate and Banque Misr.

 • Control and plant diseases course at the Research Center in Al-Mata'na

 • Practical training at Al-Nida Foundation for two production cycles on silkworm breeding, natural silk production, and the department of looms and carpets.

 • Training at the Agricultural Research Station in Al-Mataana, entitled Climate Change and Its Impact on

the Agricultural Sector and Methods of Limiting It

 • disintegrated role in the research center in Al-Mata'na

 • The role of pesticide applicators at the Research Center in Al-Mata'na

Summer Training at Research Center in Al-Mata'na

 • Attended training courses on the Internet about bio-fertilizer and recycling of agricultural waste

 • Practical training in food industries at the Research Center in Al-Mata'na

 • Training on silkworm breeding and natural silk production from Wadi Al Harir Development Company

• Maharat training from UNICEF and Ministry of Youth and Sport

• AutoCAD course at Dar Al-Handasah Academy in Qena

 • Landscape course at Green Valley Company in Qena

 • Training on manufacturing dairy products at El Nidaa Foundation at South Valley University

•English language course at Mastery Academy in Qena

• Surveying course at Dar Al-Handasah Academy in Qena

 • Medical analysis and first aid course at Mastery Academy in Qena

 • Summer training at the Research Center in Al-Muta’na

 • Summer training at "Marashda Research Center" in Qena

• My project won the first place in the category of startups and the title of Ambassador of Luxor Governorate in the National Initiative for Smart Green Projects under the auspices of His Excellency the President of the Republic. We were also honored by the Prime Minister at the National Initiative for Smart Green Projects conference in the presence of many ministers, governors and many personalities.

• PR in FAO Model, South Valley University

 • volunteer in "Ahla Shabab " Team in Luxor

 • Volunteer in "Dow" Team in Qena 

• Volunteers in the Anti-Drug Fund in Qena

• PR volunteered in Tim Ghaith, Luxor Governorate

December 2020 ´ volunteer in "Kon Tha Athar" Team of Luxor

▪Flexible communication skills gained through my work experience as a marketing representative.

▪ Excellent communication skills with my colleagues and supervisors gained through.

▪ Business Administration.

Organizational / managerial skills

▪Good organization skills developed through performing multiple tasks in limited time during my

studies in parallel with my work.

▪ Team working skills gained from my experience as a team member during my work.

Using the computer

• Word

• Excel

• PowerPoint

• AutoCAD

*_The work team has what it takes to lead the project to success.

We did an interview on the ground with them, knowing their problems, needs, desires and aspirations, and how they deal with the problem, then we analyzed everything we got from them.

Yes, we are working to empower young graduates, small farmers and housewives, and increase their income in a new, easy and less dangerous way. Also, this contributes greatly to restoring Egypt to its leadership in the production of natural silk. Also, our project works with a zero waste system and makes use of all the resulting waste. Fields with wastewater and the use of renewable energy.

We have many influential goals that we are working hard to achieve during the next year, including empowering a large number of housewives exceeding 40 women and also empowering a large number of young graduates and small farmers exceeding 50 people, in addition to recycling all our production waste and our customers, and also employing women as they represent Women are more than 70% of the employees and workers within the company, and this greatly reduces unemployment

My project depends on the use of many technological means that support our project, including an electronic application and a website for the company, in addition to modern irrigation methods for the fields, also a machine for shredding the resulting waste, also devices for measuring humidity and temperature, as well as solar energy and modern motors, also a number of devices and means inside production wards

I expect to serve 100 clients next year

Some of the obstacles, including: financial aspects, as we need financing in order to implement our plans well, the legal aspect of the difficulty of registering the company and the cost of registration, cultural obstacles represented in the dependence of customers on traditional means of income and our need to educate them first, also transportation and communications represent an obstacle for us to increase its cost.

• The Silk Research Department at the Agricultural Research Center - a collaboration with them to provide us with raw materials, technical supervision and consultations on natural silk 

• Food Technology Research Institute_ Our supply of mushroom raw materials 

• Wadi Al-Harir Development Company_supplying us with some raw materials and their requirements 

• Al-Nedaa Foundation for Development_exchanging experiences

customer segments: Young breeders and silk producers Natural and mushroom and small farmers Housewives Spinning companies and weaving Restaurants and hotels and spas tourist Supplies companies medical - Hospitals

Revenues: - Selling natural silk cocoons or natural silk after dissolution Selling fresh and dried mushrooms - Sale of seedlings - The price of providing services and advice to young educators and producers - Sale of production requirements The cost of fixed assets Cost of production requirements

Money has a very important role in the sustainability of the project, and we plan to obtain financing from investors, in addition to grants that are not returned from various sources such as competitions, business accelerators, and competitions. Currently, the project continues to be self-financed.