Sustainability

Water, with its rich biodiversity, is one of the most crucial components of natural systems that make the Earth habitable for humanity. Therefore, the university actively engages in enhancing its self-sustaining resources and optimizing the use of natural resources, infrastructure, and research projects across various fields to increase production, particularly focusing on safe and environmentally friendly biological systems. Benha University has consequently undertaken a fish farming project at the Faculty of Agriculture in Moshtohor to supply the university and the local community in Qalyubia Governorate with fish.
Equally important, the university promotes organic farming that relies on biological systems, recycles fish farming waste, and ensures the quality and safety of biological systems. It also supports diverse production activities related to fish farming and aquatic life.
Additionally, the university emphasizes water conservation policies, the preservation and management of groundwater, and the cultivation of rice using saline water due to water scarcity, aiming to save 30% of the water used for rice irrigation. The university is also committed to reducing plastic consumption, advancing aquatic medicine, and adopting circular economy practices as a tool to achieve sustainable development.
This is achieved through the following initiatives:

1. The university conducts extensive research and studies on the development and optimal use of natural resources and biological systems.
2. A joint project between Benha University and China aimed at saving 30% of the water used for rice irrigation.
3. A project focused on developing intensive fish farming management to increase fish production per unit area at the Faculty of Agriculture in Moshtohor.
4. A project to study and implement a water desalination unit using freezing technology, aiming to create a cost-effective unit for desalinating saline water, which can be used for drinking and other agricultural purposes.
5. A project to apply molecular markers in developing drought-tolerant maize hybrids, considering current and future climate changes and water scarcity, at the Faculty of Agriculture in Moshtohor.
6. Establishment of advisory centers and consultative bodies within the university.
7. The fish farming project at the Faculty of Agriculture in Moshtohor.
8. The organic greenhouse project at the Faculty of Agriculture in Moshtohor.
9. The feed factory at the Faculty of Agriculture in Moshtohor.
10. The Aquatic Medicine program at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Moshtohor.
11. The establishment of a Center of Excellence for Environmental Pollutant Monitoring in food and water at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Moshtohor.
12. The "Enactus Benha" initiative, the university's first student-led project for recycling plastic waste.
13. Participation in the National Committee for Sustainable Development and Governance (with Benha University as an executive member).
14. The laboratories of Benha University.