Al Sharqiya – Hamdy Abdel Azim Sunday, October 8, 2023 07:00 AM
Dr. Safa El-Din Metwally, Vice President of the Center, confirmed Desert Research And a member of the Egyptian Scholars Council, said that a giant treatment plant has been built that is unparalleled in Egypt and the Middle East, providing 2.7 billion cubic meters of water annually for the development of the Rawd al-Farag and al-Dabaa area. The area represents Egypt’s original future of 2.2 million acres, and it is planned to cultivate 7.9 million acres to become The region is the goal and the future in the new republic.
He added to “The Seventh Day” that the Western Desert has been historically recorded since the time of the Pharaohs in Egypt, and begins from the Mediterranean coast to the Egyptian-Sudanese border at latitude 22, and includes the northwestern coast, a group of oases and depressions, the Bahariya oases, and the Dakhla, Kharga, Bahariya, and Farafra oases, and reaches The Egyptian-Sudanese border, including the Toshka area, and what has taken place on the northwest coast in the last 10 years is an urban, agricultural, societal, and industrial boom represented by the transformation of Egypt’s Future Project, which began with about 150,000 acres, to 10 million acres.
He added that this region is Egypt’s promising future, because its borders are open and represent more than 60% of the area of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and most of the theses related to agricultural reclamation, horizontal expansion, and the establishment of new urban communities or the establishment of new agricultural, industrial, and urban communities, explaining that what distinguishes the Western Desert is that it is the most It is simple and is the most suitable for agricultural and urban development, and it is completely different from the Red Sea regions because of its specific geographical and topographical characteristics and is better than Sinai with its mountainous and geological topographical conditions.
Metwally pointed out that the Al-Nasr Canal and the El-Alamein Treatment Plant help increase the cultivated areas in accordance with certain parameters and rules so that the region will witness a very large agricultural, social, industrial and urban boom in those areas, stressing that 5,000 wells for harvesting rainwater have been built by the Desert Research Center for the purpose of We return Egypt to the food basket of the world.
2023-10-08 04:00:00
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