Yousef Wali
Yousef Amin Wali (Arabic يوسف والي موسي ميزار, DMG Yusif Wali Musa Mizar; born April 2, 1930 in al - Fayyūm ) is an Egyptian politician.
Life
Yousef Wali was Deputy Prime Minister and Vice Chairman of the Egyptian National Democratic Party in the Cabinet Abaid.
Wali belongs to an influential landowner family. 1952 lands of King Farouk were nationalized by the " Free Officers ". Under Gamal Abdel Nasser took place in the 1960s, a second stage of land reform that distributed the land from landowners to farm workers and the lease was limited to seven times the annual property tax. 1990 had 9000 families 15 percent of the agricultural land and nearly three million small farmers cultivated less than one feddan. Egypt is strongly influenced by its peasant society, three percent of its surface can be used for agriculture. A third of the workforce is employed in agriculture, with assisting women and children are not recognized. Nearly 20 percent of gross domestic product is generated in the agricultural sector. Egyptian cotton is due to their long fibers the best variety in the world and one of the main sources of foreign currency in the country.
In 1997, the lease binding was abolished, which meant that the price of land rose to 21 times the property taxes. In December 1996, the repeal of the lease bond led to violent protests in Egypt means the fellahin.
In Yousef Wali's 22 years as minister of agriculture, agricultural production in Egypt showed strong growth. They grew corn, wheat, rice and cotton. The usual in monocultures such as cotton application of plant protection products by agricultural aircraft was banned in his tenure; as well as the use of chemical plant protection in the southern Nile delta was prohibited. In the agricultural biogas plants have been introduced.
In the production of cash crops was sought after marketable products in the target countries. During more than two tons of traditional Meitner Ghamr Peaches could be produced on a per feddan, can be produced by one of the requirements of export sufficient stone fruits, up to seven tons. This scale effect led to the Egyptian market to the fact that the price per kilo of Meitner Ghamr Peaches of 1.50 LE rose to 50 LE.
Run by Wali Department of Agriculture existed until 1999, a body to monitor the use of plant protection products. 1999 reported the newspaper Al- Shaab that Wali had allowed the import of carcinogenic pesticides to Egypt. The journalists were arrested and convicted of libel. In the summer of 2002, Youssef Abdul Rahman, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, was arrested and accused of being responsible for the import of carcinogenic pesticides. The defense of Rahman laid, signed by Wali, to documents in order to justify the behavior of Rahman. In January 2004, the Walis immunity was lifted, as parliamentarians, to question him in the case of carcinogenic pesticides.
Wali certain significant foreign policy towards Israel in Egypt and Sudan. In the Cabinet Gamal, as the Cabinet Nazif has been designated, Wali was no longer appointed by Hosni Mubarak.