Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday chaired a meeting to discuss the state’s efforts to activate the national agricultural production project “Mustaqbal Misr” (Egypt’s Future), and a host of other national projects.
The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohammad Shaker and Executive Director of Egypt’s Future Agency for Sustainable Development Colonel Bahaa Al-Ghannam, Presidency Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said.
President Sisi was briefed on the government’s efforts to provide electricity for these projects, Spokesman Fahmy said.
The president gave directives for the provision of all the infrastructure needed to complete the goals of these strategic projects, within the state plan to expand the area of arable land, aiming to achieve a boom to boost the state capability of protecting Egyptians’ food security, as well as increasing agricultural exports and the national income, Fahmy said.
The project aims to bridge the agricultural gap at the local level, provide high quality produce at reasonable prices, and to increase exports through reclamation of 500,000 feddans.
Source: The Egyptian Gazette
