The present situation of animal protein in Egypt and the role of camels in providing cheap and healthy meat for people in poor greenery lands

Abstract

In Egypt, there is a great developing gap between public annual demands and available amounts of animal protein. The daily available protein of animal origin is nearly 18.2g/cap/day. This amount is too far from 29.3g/cap/day which has been recommended by the FAO since 1989 as a minimum requirement of animal protein/cap/day for people in the developing countries. In this concern, a task mission was decided by the governmental authorities in charge to reach 24g/cap/ day by year 2017. The following table shows the annual production of animal protein in year 2007 and the forecast production on year 2017 (Table 1).