The trip was made at the invitation of Dr. A. Badawi Tantawi, Project Director and former Director of the Agricultural Research Center (ARC), which is the agency responsible for agricultural development, the objective of this trip was to visit the laboratory production of Trichogramma and to attend the seminar organized by the Ministry of Agriculture Egypt and FAO on the use of by-products of rice straw.

So on May 14 the conference on the potential uses of straw and rice shel was held at the Ministry of Agriculture of Egypt.