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EGYPT 1948. FAO Near-Eastern Conference at Cairo

14 February 1948, Cairo - A group of delegates to the Near-Eastern Regional Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) pictured outside the Agricultural Museum, Cairo. In foreground, centre, is Sir John Boyd-Orr, Director-General of FAO. The Conference, held in Cairo's Agricultural Museum, discussed ways and means to provide the Near-East with capital equipment and technical assistance for the development of a world granary, as in ancient times. Artesian and river potentialities for irrigation in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt were examined, as well as problems of animal and plant diseases control.

02/14/1948

Country Egypt

File size 1.54 MB

Unique ID UF11P4H

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