President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met Wednesday with Lieutenant-General Mohamed Abbas Helmy, Commander of the Air Force, Major General Amir Sayed Ahmed, Advisor to the President for Urban Planning, and Lt. Col. Pilot Bahaa El-Din El-Ghannam, Director of the "Future of Egypt" project.
The meeting dealt with following up the developments of the executive position of the national project "Future of Egypt" for agricultural production, within the scope of the giant "New Delta" project to reclaim a total area of 2.2 million feddans, according to Presidency Spokesperson Bassam Rady.
In this context, Sisi was briefed on the executive position of the “Future of Egypt” project with all its components, especially with regard to the paths of water metered access from irrigation water, as well as the project’s water desalination plant, in addition to the agricultural mechanization and agricultural industrialization system, as well as future development plans.
The project is carried out in integration and coordination with the various concerned authorities in the country.
Sisi directed to expand the activity of the “Egypt’s Future” project so that it is implemented within a comprehensive and integrated framework, to achieve the optimal use of state assets and to achieve the maximum possible use of the available resources, especially agricultural land, and water.
The project will serve as a locomotive for agricultural development in the state, through adopting the concept of giant agricultural entities that have the ability to make a qualitative leap in the modern agricultural sector and achieve food security, in addition to relying on the latest global technology in irrigation and agriculture.
Sisi also directed that the "Egypt's future" project focus on cultivating the strategic commodities necessary to reduce the import gap, as well as benefiting from the project by including various production activities related to agricultural activity, to achieve an added value to the project's productivity, as well as the establishment of an integrated agricultural manufacturing complex to achieve self-sufficiency from the requirements production, in addition to the system of plants, silos, and coolers required for the work of this giant project.
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