Women’s ownership of agricultural land would increase through clear policies – CC via Pixabay/vuesducielCAIRO - 24 December 2021: The Egyptian government is working on reclamation of one million feddans (one feddan is equal to 1.03 acres) in Upper Egypt, said spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture Mohamed Al-Qarsh on Thursday evening. The new project would be developed and quipped with modernize irrigation systems to increase the agricultural area and land productivity, he told Kalemat Ser (A Secret Word) talk show on Sada El-Balad T.V. The government targets reclamation more than 4 million feddans nationwide, he said. On December 15, 2021, Governor of South Sinai Khaled Fouda stated that the total area of cultivated land in the desert governorate has reached 31,000 feddans. The project aims to develop 2.2 million acres, which represents 30 percent of the old Delta, and is a major leap for the new republic.

Source: Egypt Today December 24, 2021 17:09 UTC