Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi officially inaugurated the monumental “New Delta” agricultural development project in northwestern Egypt this Sunday.
The massive state initiative commands a total investment estimated at 800 billion Egyptian pounds, roughly equivalent to 15 billion dollars.
The primary objective of this project is to drastically enhance national food security and achieve self-sufficiency in strategic commodities.
Spanning vast desert hinterlands, the development successfully connects the major regional governorates of Beheira, Giza, and Matrouh.
The targeted area encompasses 2.2 million feddans, representing roughly 15 percent of the nation’s total current agricultural land footprint.
Officials have hailed the mega-project as the most extensive horizontal agricultural expansion ever recorded in modern Egyptian history.
To defy nature, the infrastructure utilizes 19 major pumping stations to push water upward against the natural desert slopes.
A massive 150-kilometer network of channels transfers treated agricultural drainage water from the old Nile Delta to the new development.
Furthermore, the state has allocated a robust 2,000 megawatts of electricity generation capacity to power the sprawling desert infrastructure.
Cultivation will focus strictly on essential strategic crops, specifically wheat, sugar beet, and corn, to maximize domestic integration.
Sisi revealed an ambitious broader plan to rapidly reclaim and add 4.5 million feddans to Egypt’s agricultural inventory nationwide.
The government projects that this vast agricultural enterprise will ultimately create nearly 2 million sustainable job opportunities for citizens.
It also aims to accommodate approximately 2 million families within newly built, fully planned, and modern urban desert communities.
President Sisi emphasized that mounting global and regional geopolitical tensions make building strong domestic self-sufficiency an absolute necessity.