Agriculture spokesman: New projects add 2.9 million acres to farmland Soon

Dr. Muhammad Al-Qirsh, a spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the New Delta project aims to increase the agricultural area.

He added that there are several new agricultural projects, including the new Egyptian countryside, Sinai projects that will add 700 thousand feddans (Egyptian acres), along with the New Delta project of more than 2.2 million feddans.

Dr. Al-Qirsh affirmed, during a telephone conversation with the journalist Jaber Al-Qarmouti, anchor of "Min Misr-from Egypt" program broadcast on CBC space channel, that there are 2.2 million feddans in the new delta, to be added to the agricultural area in the coming period.