President Sisi orders continuing intensive efforts to add 3.5M feddans to Egypt’s agricultural area

CAIRO – 21 March 2023: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ordered continuing intensive efforts to add around 3.5 million feddans in the New Delta, Toshka and Sinai to Egypt’s agricultural area, the Egyptian Presidency said in a statement on Tuesday.

This exceeds a third of the cultivated area across Egypt, the Presidency said, making it one of the country’s mega national projects aimed at meeting the hopes and aspirations of the Egyptian people.

The mega project, dubbed “Future of Egypt,” to add 3.5 million feddans to Egypt’s agricultural lands also comes within the framework of the state's strategy to keep pace with the needs of population increase, achieve food security, increase agricultural exports and enhance integration between all sectors of the national economy, the Presidency added.

Sisi was briefed on the developments of the current and future stages of the project, which falls within the range of the "New Delta" national project.

That included rates of work progress in the project's infrastructure, which includes roads, axes, wells, treatment plants, electricity supply network, as well as the agricultural manufacturing and marketing systems, the Presidency added.

Sisi made the remarks in a meeting to follow up on the "Future of Egypt" project for agricultural production with the attendance of Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Minister of Defense and Military Production General Mohammed Zaki.

Head of the Armed Forces Financial Affairs Authority Ahmed El-Shazly, President's Advisor for Urban Planning Amir Sayed Ahmed and Director of the Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority Bahaa El-Ghannam also attended the meeting.