Live Streaming: Sisi arrives in Kafr el-Sheikh to inaugurate MENA’s largest fish farm

CAIRO -18 November 2017: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi arrived on Saturday to inaugurate several national projects in Kafr el Sheikh governorte, in Delta, topped by the largest fish farming project in the Middle East and Africa.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, House Speaker Ali Abdel Aal and Defense Minister Colonel General Sedki Sobhi along with several other ministers received the president upon his arrival at the ceremony headquarters.




The fish farming project consists of two phases, the first of which was carried out on an area of 4,000 acres and will expectedly cover up to 70 percent of Egypt’s domestic need of fish.

The industrial city of the fish project includes four main factories, a development and training center, and a central laboratory to ensure the high quality of the products.

The area on which the excavation and drilling works take place amounted to 16 million Square meters, which is six times the size of the Great Pyramid; meanwhile, the iron rods required for the construction works were estimated at 13 thousand tons.