This finding may also help the Egyptian Government to reconsider the adoption of Bt-modified crops plan for reclamation of 4 million feddan of the desert land in the coming years.
In Kassala State, 10 feddans of rangeland were rehabilitated with seeds and 20 feddans cleared of noxious mesquite trees.
His father had moved the middle-income family to that city, where he owned a few feddans of land mostly planted with pears and grapes.
Also, the government encouraged aquaculture by providing about 140 000 feddans (one feddan=4 200 m2) of land, generally close to the lakes, for development of aquaculture.
"Every 1bn kilolitre reduction in natural flow to Egypt will cause 200,000 feddans [207,600 acres] of land to go out of production, and 500,000 farmers to be out of work – which will affect 2.5 million families," he said.
Moreover, the historic records refer to the existence of a developed system for forest management in ancient Egypt, established during the 11th century A.D. to include the governorates of Beni-Swelf, Menya, Suhag and Asswan at the said era, where total area of the forest in the South of the valley exceeded 19 thousand feddans (8 Heetars).
Regarding growth rates of yield per feddan for the major crops, the first period (1985-1994) coincided with the implementation of the first phase of the structural adjustment programme in agriculture (1987-1997) as discussed before, whereas the post-agreement period (1995-2001) coincided with the second phase of SAP as well as the implementation of UR.
The land within this zone is now intended for the government's landmark agricultural mega-project, which aims to convert 1.5m feddans (more than 2,400 square miles) of arid desert into verdant farmland.
This year, she's planning to make her seven feddans (29,499 square meters or 2.95 hectares) of land really produce.
The total area of irrigated land in year 2009 was approximately 8.7 million feddans (feddan = 4,220 m2) and expected to reach 11 million feddans by the year 2017 after the implementation of the horizontal expansion plan and the national mega projects (Attia 2009).
