Egypt second largest country in building greenhouses: Sisi

CAIRO – 22 December 2018: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday praised the effort put into the national greenhouses mega-project, pointing out that only cooperation between various authorities, including ministries of electricity, agriculture and arrigation and the Agriculture Research Center, is what finalized the project.

On Saturday, President Sisi inaugurated the greenhouses project at El Lahun village in Beni Suef via video conference.

The Egyptian leader added that this project makes Egypt the second largest country in the world in the field of building greenhouses.

On Feb. 8, Sisi inaugurated the first phase of a project to establish greenhouses on an area of 100,000 feddans as he arrived at Mohamed Naguib military base in el-Hamam area of Alexandria’s North Coast.

The project aims at developing economy by increasing the production of planted crops and the exploited area across the nation. Greenhouses consume about 70 percent water less than these used in traditional agriculture areas, it also produces high quality agricultural crops out of season.

Sisi underlined the importance of relying more on modern irrigation techniques and setting up drainage water treatment plants to serve greenhouses projects.

The greenhouse’s structure made of walls and transparent roof enables plants to grow in regulated climatic conditions, and provides a different weather than the outer environment.