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Sewerage, debts and failures of the land of farmers in Fayoum
In spite of the repeated allegation of our government that it has put the agricultural policies and issues of the Egyptian peasant in its first priorities, in addition to Ranting for changes and a better future, problems of the farmers in the countryside is getting worse, where these problems are usually caused by the state institutions. 650 acres have been doomed and destructed in Mahmoud Abdul Baki estate and Mohammed Salem Manor estate Hosni Jaber and Ashour estate, Center Tamia, Fayoum. This area of land has been exposed to failures due to abuse and neglect of the architects of the Ministry of Irrigation, and bias of the large landowners and influential.
This problem happened with the beneficiaries of the slot No. 16-17, on both sides of the burgeoning right Hadar Room 3 of the Wahby Sea, belonging to the village of Fanous, Center Tamia, Fayoum. Where farmers suffered from a lack of irrigation water and its access to them, lack of commitment by the owners of the previous slots to the roles reserved for them to irrigate their land, the work of random slots in front of their lands, fractures and cuts in all weirs, with no obligation to fill the holes and fractures after the irrigation of land, which is done by influential and major shareholders before the eyes of Fayoum Irrigation Department officials, which led to a failure of a large area of lands of the poor and marginalized people, damaging their crops and land at the ends of canals for irrigation, and being obliged to irrigate from the sewage of Abdul Same, causing injury to these farmers and their children; many diseases and epidemics, including kidney failure, cirrhosis of the liver and HIV c.
Despite numerous complaints and SOS, which has repeatedly sent to the officials in the Engineering Directorate in Fayoum irrigation department, no one did respond to their complaints or heed their calls as a result of this injustice and complicity with the powerful people.
Shaaban Jaber Saad, one of the farmers in estate Mohamed Salem says "I've got 10 boys. I was teaching them and care for them by the production of these lands, as well as I do fill the basic needs and requirements of the family.
After the failures of the agricultural land and crop damage due to the unjust policy of the Ministry of Irrigation, I withdrew my children from school and ordered them to look for a job in 6 th October. And despite of this, we were unable to pay taxes on this land and we were not able to meet the requirements of basic family. "
Abdel-Hamid Hamida El-Tayyeb says "because of failures of land and crop damage of our inability to repay bank debt, we have accumulated debt and I had to withdraw siblings from school and displace them. We do not know what to do after that. "
Abdul Rahman Abdul Sattar also added "We planted 9 acres that were exposed to failures due to lack of irrigation water, in addition to the salinity of drinking water, reaching 680 degrees salinity, and I was injured with kidney failure, I do have dialysis every week. I drove my only son to stop education so as to help us bear the burden of living, and if there was some justice, influential persons wouldn't have seized irrigation water."
Khalid Abdul Sattar says: "My father cultivates 14 acres, and he was forced to irrigate the land using drainage water due to the absence of clean water. We were unable to repay the loan for the Agricultural Development Bank due to land loss because of the absence of irrigation water, which occurred in front of officials of the Directorate of Irrigation in Fayoum."
Then Mohamed Sawyery Abdel Hay says:" We are considered to not be living in this world; potable water is unsafe and it brings renal failure, hepatitis and various diseases. We can not get irrigation water, and our children are out of school and roaming around different cities to look for alternative employment to agriculture, which is the profession of the parents and grandparents of these children. What sin was committed by those children to take responsibility of a higher age eat. Was their fault that they were born in these bad conditions? "
Then Mrs. Faika Rashid, wife of Mr. Rabea Ali Abdel-Gawad "We own three acres and we head 8 children of different ages, all are out of school due to the circumstances imposed on us. We have borrowed from the Agricultural Bank as an attempt to improve conditions, but the debt increased and benefits accumulated, and we were unable to pay because we were unable to water the land. On the other hand, the animals and livestock, which we upbring, die because it drinks water from drainage. "
The center stresses on the need for the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation to fulfill their commitments to provide sufficient irrigation water to lands of farmers and stop the policy of corruption inside their computers and the application of standards of justice and equality in the distribution of water, as a commitment to the rights of farmers and to agricultural development and improving conditions for economic and social rights for small farmers.
The Center calls the prime minister and ministers of Agriculture and Irrigation and the President of Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit to speedily intervene and distribut holes of the Irrigation on all farmers in equal way, so they can cultivate their land and pay their debts to the Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit in order to preserve their rights to safe agriculture, justice and equality.
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