Agriculture
The climatic changes may affect agricultural activities, especially for export vegetable crops like Potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, and etc, so the Committee on Climate Change issued a guide report to farmers to preserve the crops.
Modernizing irrigation systems is part of a larger plan to save water.
On his side, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Al Sayed al-Qusair added that the ministry works on improving the heredity of cattle in Egypt.
Upper Egyptian governorates, from the North to the South, are Fayoum, Beni Suef, Menya, Asyut, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, and Aswan.
The Assistant Minister said that the size of the cultivated lands is more than 9.4 million feddans (one feddan is equal to 1.03 acres), and the state is currently working on reclaiming more than 4 million more feddans.
The government targets reclamation more than 4 million feddans nationwide, he said.
Those are located within the 17 Bedouin residential areas the government is introducing on the peninsula.
Agriculture Minister el Sayyed el Qusair discussed Wednesday with visiting Lebanese Agriculture Minister Abbas al Hajj Hassan and his accompanying delegation facilitating the measures of exchanging agricultural goods between Egypt and Lebanon and removing all hindrances facing this process.
Governor of South Sinai Khaled Fouda indicated Wednesday the total area of cultivated land in the desert governorate.
Such development is expected to reflect positively on farmers in the first place, as part of the objectives of the National Water Resources Plan until 2037.
The economic researcher explained how that has been achieved.
In a meeting with parliamentarians at the House of Representatives Tuesday, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Al Sayed Al Qusair made the statement.
Khaled Gweida, one of the residents, said that six years ago, they asked an agricultural engineer to teach them planting rooftops, which they started in one unit that cost them then L.E. 1,500
IFAD has been involved in Egypt for over four decades, and the portfolio to date is 14 projects worth $1.1 billion.
Ghanem added that the ministry targets accomplishing modern irrigation systems in four million feddans in three years at a budget of LE40 billion ($250 million).
The Nile Tree Project, which was launched by the YLE at World Environment Day this year, aims at planting 0.5 million trees along all newly-lined irrigational canals on the two banks of the Nile.
The project spans over 2.2 million feddans (one feddan equals 4,500 square meters).
Ambassador of Egypt to Lebanon, Dr. Yasser Elwi, met Saturday with a number of members of the Lebanese government, to discuss ways to support and develop economic bilateral relations between Egypt and Lebanon.
Ambassador of Egypt to Lebanon, Dr. Yasser Elwi, met Saturday with a number of members of the Lebanese government, to discuss ways to support and develop economic bilateral relations between Egypt and Lebanon.
That has been accomplished over 18 phases since May 2017 when the campaign was launched by President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
