Yousef Wali

Yousef Amin Wali ( Arabic يوسف والي موسي ميزار, DMG Yūsif Wālī Mūsā Mīzār ; * April 2, 1930 in al-Fayyūm ) is an Egyptian politician .

Life

Yousef Wali was Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Chairman of the National Democratic Party in the Abaid Cabinet .

Wali belongs to an influential large landowning family . In 1952, King Faruq's lands were nationalized by the "Free Officers". Under Gamal Abdel Nasser , a second stage of land reform took place in the 1960s , which distributed land from landowners to farm workers and limited the lease to seven times the annual property tax . In 1990, 9,000 families owned 15 percent of the agricultural area and almost three million smallholders built less than a feddan . Egypt is strongly shaped by its rural society, three percent of its surface can be used for agriculture. A third of all employees work in agriculture, whereby women and children who work are not recorded. Almost 20 percent of the gross domestic product is generated in the agricultural sector. Due to its long fibers, Egyptian cotton is the best variety in the world and one of the country's most important foreign exchange earners.

In 1997, the lease agreement was lifted, which led to the fact that land prices rose to 21 times the property tax. In December 1996, the lifting of the lease bond in Central Egypt led to violent protests by the fellahs .

In Yousef Wali's 22 years as Minister of Agriculture, agricultural production in Egypt showed strong growth. Corn, wheat, rice and cotton were grown. The application of pesticides by agricultural aircraft , which is common with monocultures such as cotton , was banned during his term of office; The use of chemical plant protection in the southern Nile Delta was also prohibited. Biogas plants were introduced in agriculture .

In the production of cash crops , a search was made for marketable products in the target countries. While a feddan could produce a maximum of two tons of the traditional Meit Ghamr Peaches , up to seven tons can be produced from a stone fruit that meets the requirements of export . This economies of scale led to the fact that the price per kilo of Meit Ghamr Peaches rose from LE 1.50 to LE 50 on the Egyptian market .

In the Ministry of Agriculture headed by Wali, a committee existed until 1999 to monitor the use of pesticides. In 1999 the Al-Shaab newspaper reported that Wali had allowed carcinogenic pesticides to be imported into Egypt. The journalists were arrested and convicted of defamation . In the summer of 2002, Youssef Abdul Rahman, State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, was arrested and charged with being responsible for importing the carcinogenic pesticides. Rahman's defense submitted documents, signed by Wali, intended to justify Rahman's behavior. In January 2004, Welsh's immunity as a MP was lifted to question him on the case of carcinogenic pesticides.

Wali decisively determined Egypt's foreign policy towards Israel and Sudan . Hosni Mubarak no longer appointed Wali to the Gamal cabinet , as the Nazif cabinet was called .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vips Government. New Government since May 15, 2001. Youssef Amin Wali
2. ^ Federal Agency for Civic Education - Egypt's Path to Modernity
3. ^ Al-Ahram Weekly , Nov. 11–17 . August 2005 Surviving the watermelon. Retrieved March 26, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Al-Ahram Weekly , April 13-19. September 2007, Irreconcilable evidence. Retrieved March 26, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Karl R. DeRouen, Paul Bellamy, International Security and the United States

predecessor	Office	successor
Minister of Agrarian Reform and Land Claims: El Sayed Abdul Mohsen Abdul Nur Minister of Agriculture: Shafik Aly El Kheshn	Egyptian Minister of Agriculture and Land Claims 1982 to July 9, 2004	Ahmed El-Leithy