Tariq El-Gamal, President of Assiut University, emphasized the continuation of the university’s work strategy aimed at consolidating the bonds of scientific cooperation and joint work with all universities and major Arab and foreign educational and research institutions in various countries of the world in a way that works to enrich the scientific movement and achieve cultural and intellectual openness by getting to know the cultures and customs of other peoples.

This came during his meeting with a delegation of students from the State of Denmark at the end of their scientific visit to the university to study geological sciences, in the presence of Dr. Adel Mohamed Mahmoud, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Dr. Saleh Ismail, Professor and Head of the Land Department at the Faculty, and Dr. Mohsen Jamea, Emeritus Professor in the department.

During the meeting, Dr. Tariq El-Gammal praised the position of the College of Advanced Agriculture and the distinguished human cadres it possesses that enable it to provide accurate and specialized scientific services in various fields of agricultural sciences, in addition to the vast farms of plants, vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry located inside and outside the university to support the research movement and practical training.

Dr. Adel Mohamed Mahmoud, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture explained that the visit of the Danish delegation comes within the framework of the joint student exchange program in the field of geosciences between Egypt and Denmark. The Danish delegation includes 9 students, 2 supervisors and 6 specialists from the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Center, on a scientific visit to Assiut University that lasted several days. It is scheduled to be followed by a visit to Denmark in the second half of April by a scientific delegation from the university, including the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, the Head of the Land Department at the Faculty, 4 teaching assistants in the Land and Crops Departments, and 6 students from different study groups.

Dr. Saleh Ismail, Professor and Head of the Land Department, revealed that the Danish delegation’s visit program extended for several days, and began with a scientific visit to the New Valley Governorate, in order to identify the layers of soil and its impact on erosion factors and the problems facing the soil in that region, such as sand dunes and its characteristics of crops, the most prominent of which are date palms, and provided an opportunity for students to study the layers of soil containing water in the Kharga region, followed by their visit to the farms of the Faculty of Agriculture at Assiut University, which included poultry and livestock farms, orchards, lands and the unit for extracting aromatic and medicinal plant oils and hydroponic cultivation in the greenhouse of the College's Land Department.