A mega project for protected plants will be established at the two governorates of Minya and Beni Suef.
Hundreds of Heavy equipment arrived at the two governorates to start the establishing works of the biggest project for protected plants worldwide.
In addition to the greenhouses that will cover the desert, several agro-based industries will be established there. The project will maximize the benefit of the crude product.
Greenhouses projects
Noteworthy, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi inaugurated 1300 greenhouses over 10.000 feddans as part of the second phase of the Mohamed Naguib Sector for Protected Agriculture early this week.
This project’s production is equivalent to about one million feddans of traditional agriculture.
It aims at contributing to food security maintenance and bridging the gap between production and consumption.
Moreover, this project will maximize the utilization of available land for agricultural activities. It will rationalize the usage of water in irrigation.
On Feb. 8, 2018, Sisi inaugurated the first phase of a project to establish greenhouses on an area of 100,000 feddans.
In Dec., 2018, Sisi officially inaugurated a major greenhouse project in 10th of Ramadan city, Sharqiya governorate. It is consists of 7,100 agricultural greenhouses over 34,000 feddans of land.
During the inauguration, the president said that the state had started two years ago and considered the second biggest agricultural greenhouse project.
The Egyptian military`s National Company for Protective Cultivation and the National Service Projects Organization ois implementing the project.
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.