Egypt's PM asserts importance of "New Delta" project

CAIRO - 31 March 2020: Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli Wednesday said the new national project for integrated agricultural development, of "the New Delta", aims basically to achieve food security and confront the increasing demand for foodstuffs given the constant increase in population.

During a cabinet meeting that covered a number of key issues, the premier said the timetable of the project that was launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi needs to be tightened in order to start establishing new agricultural and urban communities applied through the latest administrative systems.

The prime minister praised the great efforts exerted by the Suez Canal staff to refloat the Evergreen vessel and noted the very important messages included in President Sisi's statements on Tuesday during the press conference held at the Suez Canal.

The President ِAbdel Fatah al-Sisi issued directives to the bodies concerned to merge the implementation phases into one stage and intensify the timetable, to promote the state’s strategy in the field of establishing new agricultural and urban communities characterized by modern administrative systems, including industrial complexes based on agricultural production, and providing thousands of new job opportunities, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement

Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Al Sayed Al Qusair said in following statements that the national project of creating a new Delta spanning over a million feddans (one feddan is equal to 4,200 square meters) will be executed in two years.

The area will be cultivated with strategic crops like wheat, corn, and vegetables, the minister pointed out noting that laboratory and field studies have been finalized.

The minister had told press earlier that the cost of reclamation per feddan is LE200,000,