President El-Sisi Inspects Progress of "Egypt’s Future" Project During Harvesting Season

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inspected this morning "Egypt’s Future" Project carried out in the Western Desert during the harvesting season.

The Spokesman for the Egyptian Presidency stated that President El-Sisi inspected “Egypt’s Future” Project during the harvesting season. The harvesting process is done in accordance with the state-of-the-art technological methods of agriculture. The President also met with a number of heads of specialized agricultural companies participating in the project. He was updated on the developments of the status and proposals for developing production.

In the same vein, His Excellency called for increasing the company’s investments in the project. The President stressed the importance of strengthening coordination and cooperation between the various competent authorities.

The President also met with a number of media professionals at the site of Egypt’s Future Project. They had a discussion with the President during which His Excellency highlighted the added value that this project represents in the field of national projects. This project aims to increase the agricultural area in Egypt, achieve food security, and provide job opportunities in a variety of specialties, which will have broad positive impact on achieving comprehensive development and providing a decent life and a better future for the Egyptian people.

The Spokesman stated that this project falls within the scope of the mega national project: the "New Delta". This project aims to cultivate one million feddans along the new Rod El-Farag-Dabaa axis, near Sphinx International Airport, Borg El Arab International Airport, El-Dekheila Port and Alexandria Port.
Its location would help facilitate the delivery of production requirements and final products. It also contributes to making the project an attractive destination for investors.

The project contributes to the development of the northwestern coast region through the establishment of new agricultural and urban communities that have proper administrative systems.

In the same vein, industrial complexes are to be established, based on full-fledged agricultural production systems. Crops are to be cultivated and harvested with the latest mechanisms. The processes of sorting, packaging and manufacturing also fall within the scope of the project. Moreover, Egypt’s Future project provides hundreds of thousands of new job opportunities.

The project also aims to bridge the agricultural gap at the local level to provide high-quality agricultural products at reasonable prices to citizens and export the surplus overseas through cultivating 500 thousand feddans; 200 thousand feddans have been reclaimed in the first phase of the project. The other phases, covering an area of 300 thousand feddans, are being reclaimed.

The project will depend on providing water resources for agricultural wastewater treatment plants that have been established. Its infrastructure has also been implemented, which includes paving about 500-km-long internal roads, digging groundwater wells, and establishing two power stations with a capacity of 350 megawatt, a 200-km-long internal electric power grid, stores for meeting production requirements, and administrative and residential buildings.