Director of Field Crops Institute: Egypt Tops in Productivity of Wheat Per Acre

Dr. Reda Muhammad Ali, Director of the Field Crops Research Institute and Head of the National Campaign to Preserve Wheat confirmed that the area of land cultivated with wheat during the past year amounted to 3,650,000 feddans (Egyptian acre) that produced 10 million tons, of which 4.2 million tons were supplied to state silos.

He added that those quantities covered 50 % of Egypt's needs for wheat, which amounts to nearly 20 million tons annually.

He affirmed that Egypt plans to plant 4 million acres of wheat this year.

Dr. Reda Muhammad Ali revealed that researchers are working on maximizing the productivity of an acre of wheat, and the general average of an acre's productivity of spring wheat ranges between 19 to 20 ardebs ( an ardeb equals about 140 kg) per acre, which means that an acre produces about 3 tons per acre, which represents the world's highest percentage of wheat productivity, "pointing out that wheat cultivation It is valid in all parts of Egypt, and the new areas planted with wheat that will be added to the areas of last year will be in the new lands that have been reclaimed.