After 40 years of experience… the success of growing coffee for the first time in Egypt

Egypt – The Egyptian newspaper “Al-Watan” published a report on the success of coffee cultivation for the first time in Egypt after 40 years of experiments.

The newspaper said in a report that in the last century, Yemeni coffee seedlings entered Yemen for the first time and were planted under tall trees to provide shade due to the lack of greenhouses. The long-awaited experiment by scientists at the research center succeeded.

Coffee cultivation consultant and professor specializing in tropical crops at the Giza Research Center, who supervises the Egyptian coffee fields, Nihad Mustafa, said about the experience of growing and harvesting coffee for the first time in Egypt from the orchards in Qanater El-Khairiya. It was established in the past era: “The planted coffee trees were a gift from the State of Yemen in the year 1985 in the exchange of information between the two countries. During this period, they were not in a greenhouse. The closest place to preserving coffee trees was to plant them under mango trees. The important avocado palm provides moisture for the coffee. One of the current experiments is whether coffee trees thrive directly under the sun, and this is what has begun to succeed. We have been harvesting coffee fruits for more than a month.”

She explained that a large team of researchers is working day and night to make the Egyptian coffee experiment successful, as the experiment is the highest production that puts Egypt at the beginning of the path to coffee cultivation. This team is from the Horticulture Research Center, the Giza and Qanater Research Center, and the National Research Center.

She continued: “Currently, in the beginning, we are able to spread coffee seedlings among farmers. The climatic conditions helped us and we began to put our foot on the right path. We started research in 2007. The new research that we are completing aims to develop agriculture in general and coffee in particular. We are making a comparison between agriculture in a greenhouse and open agriculture. We continue to compare them with new seedlings without trees in sustainable lands.”

Source: Al Watan