Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated on Saturday a major greenhouse project in 10th of Ramadan City in Sharqia Governorate. The flagship includes 7,100 agricultural greenhouses over 34,000 feddans. Praising the coordination between different ministries to complete the project, Sisi said that it had started two years ago and that it was considered the second biggest agricultural greenhouse project in the world. Sisi said that the biggest date farm in the world at present was also being established in Egypt, with 2,500,000 palm trees on 40,000 feddans producing the finest types of dates. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2017, Egypt is the number one producer of dates in the world The greenhouse project is being implemented by the National Company for Protective Cultivations and the National Service Projects Organization of the Egyptian military. The project aims to fill the gap between agricultural organic production and consumption, as well to increase the agricultural production of land while saving water. Sisi also inaugurated via video conference another agricultural greenhouse project on Saturday morning. The greenhouse project aims to create new job opportunities. According to the CEO of the National Company for Protective Cultivations, Major General Mohamed Abdel-Hai, the project provides not less than 75,000 job opportunities, while it rationalises the use of irrigation water by about 80 percent and increases production fourfold. He stated that the company was currently setting up 7,100 greenhouses, adding that this phase is set to produce about 1.5 million tonnes of vegetables per year. The inauguration of the project was attended by Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly, Defence Minister Mohamed Zaki, and other senior officials. Source: Ahram Online
