Egypt, Sudan agree to re-form board of joint agricultural company

Egypt and Sudan agreed to re-form the board of the Egyptian-Sudanese Agricultural Integration Company to include the membership of the two countries' irrigation ministers and experts.

The company's general assembly held a meeting on Sunday and decided to form a legal committee to revise the company's statute and regulations within a month.

The general assembly agreed to extend the company's contract for thirty years with an assessment carried out every five years.

The company was established 40 years ago when late Egyptian and Sudanese presidents Anwar Sadat and Gaafar Nimeiry signed an integration agreement, under which the company was created.

The company's last board meeting was held in 2007 until it convened in Khartoum in April this year.