FAODA - Fayoum Agro Organic Development Association

FAODA is a Non-Governmental Organization “NGO” founded in 2001 as a committee affiliated to one of the first farmer's association created by CARE International in Fayoum, through a team of young promising and multi-expertise in El- Basionia area - Fayoum, who gained considerable experience of training provided by the project of the agricultural information for export (AgReform) implemented through CARE International.  

    As a direct result of success and excellence in the dissemination of thought of organic farming in the region through seminars, workshops and awareness campaigns which was one of its most important results the cultivation and exporting of several crops, that was encouraged to attract a group of researchers and experts in the field of organic agriculture to cooperate with the team to create a distinct entity to be the center for the disseminate the concept of organic farming from Fayoum Governorate throughout Egypt.

Where organic farming depends primarily on the resistance not on the treatment, FAODA has been keen to pursue safely ways to dispose of crop residues, through two important ways which are:
§  The first way: using crop residues and animal wastes for making organic fertilizer (compost).

§  The second way: Using some types of residues to produce handicraft products such as palm trees residues in general, through it, we are working to clean up the environment from the wastes which if left it on the aspects of the farms , it will become  nests for harmful  insects and pests.

FAODA added another field related to organic Farming and environmental handicrafts, which is eco-tourism, where it organizes routes for eco-tourism in Fayoum governorate to make the Eco tourist enjoy seeing the elements of : fabulous  nature for a day or two days to visit natural reserves, tourism attractions and areas of concentrations of environmental handicrafts, in the end of the tour they go to visit the  environmental village, which is an organic farm to enjoy eating traditional foods in the middle of breathtaking nature of Fayoum countryside.
And consequently, we find that FAODA  working through so-called triangle of tourism development, which its base is eco-tourism its two sides  are organic Farming and environmental handicrafts.