Within Crop Life overall goal of promoting food nutrition at large and thus the optimum use of pesticides, an innovative program was designed with Knowledge Economy Foundation/Bashaier Platform to establish a new scheme to spread the good agriculture practices at small farmers level, as well as enable rural youth to acquire such skills and transform them into new types of business, while remaining in their area instead of immigrating or quitting the agriculture sector. In cooperation with Crop Life Egypt and Benha Faculty of Agriculture in Mashtohor, Qaliubeya, a combined program was designed including an integrated training program, together with the set up of agri clinics funded by the Agriculture Bank . A parallel scheme is being envisaged to develop a digital reference book enabling farmers to send a picture of their crops disease and receive automatically the analysis and guidance online; whereas, the data and know how are provided by subject matter specialists.
