Gomig-21
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Egypt lack fertile lands for the incoming population growth...
If you look at the fertile land expansion in just the past 40 years, it's approximately 30% greater from what it was. Look at the Nile Delta and how it's ballooning not only east to west, but mostly north. Farmlands have reached the Mediterranean sea from expanding the fertile soil of the Nile shores.
There is also a huge expansion of irrigation fields. This is not even including the desertification of farms where they dig for wells, find sustainable underground water sources then bring in fertile soil and grow farms in the desert. This has actually been happening since the early 1980's. We were actually involved in this. When it started happening, people were buying desert lands from the government and within 6 months to a year, they were growing melons, lettuce, cabbage, oranges, tomatoes, cucumbers it was moving at a pace similar to real estate to the point where the government had to issue limits on purchasing land. The potential to farm desert land is huge in Egypt and will grow rapidly just in the next decade.
Here's a small example which illustrates this desertification process.
This fertile land will keep expanding from the shores of the Nile. If you look at the width of much of these immediate lands all the way down the Nile, it has tripled in width just in the past 50 years and will only grow.
Farming and fertile land really is not the problem in Egypt, as a matter of fact, produce is largely exported than domestically consumed.
Over 88% of the oranges and manderins that grow out of this farm are exported.
So there is no real shortage TBH with you for farmlands being able to sustain the pop even in the future, because with the population growth, fertile land is even ahead of it.
The problem is population growth itseld. That's the much bigger problem because of habitable space. This is what Egypt needs to address and is actually dealing with acceptable methods of controlling it. You're definitely right on that aspect.
What's happening in the videos and posts above by @The SC is the fish farming projects that are taking off like it's no one's business. If you look back a few pages you'll see @mahatir was talking about the Egyptian/Vietnamese cooperation in learning low to develop these fish farms since the Vietnamese are super successful at it and it looks like it's pretty much working well. The issue with that also is that Egypt doesn't have a fully developed commercial fishing industry, by the standards that it should be at considering the available resources. The current one is limited at best and this is not only for local consumption, but for export as well. Fishing the Mediterranean is something that has eluded the Egyptian commercial industry for quite some time, and in the Red Sea, it's very limited because the RS is viewed as the commercial vessel gateway, obviously, and the tourism sector is what's expanding there more so than fishing and oil is the predominant industry in the Red Sea. So these fish farms are a terrific idea but the commercial fishing industry needs to up its game, especially in the Med and they are better off staying out of the RS.
Greenhouses as it is right now...is not a viable model for a huge pop but only to fill a gap...
Oh man, greenhouses can be a tremendous success and a very viable solution for the future, along with desertification. Egypt has massive amounts of land to promote both of these. Irrigation is the most difficult part and that is mostly the undisclosed matter regarding the effects of the Renaissance dam in Ethiopia which is heating up big time BTW. This is the sticking point that it will effect the expansion of irrigation canals and the flow capacity for mechanical systems to areas further outside of the Delta and the immediate shores of the river. It's not just for sustainability, but its effect on growth that's the bigger problem.
Egypt should do as other superpower are doing... investing/buying lands in other countries... like what China/India/US/Russia atc... are doing... by buyng huge amounts of lands in central Africa ( like Ethiopia/ South Sudan among few exmples...) for ridiculous low amount... few years ago an hectare of fertile lands were around 10-20$... even huge amounts of lands were also giving for free... at condition to build schools/ employ local workers etc... Chinese are filling their Agriculture agendas right now...
I don't think the lands these superpowers are purchasing outside their own are because of local, foreseeable shortages like you're suggesting. Rather, I think these are strictly business ventures for nothing other than the bottom line ~ $. Wouldn't you say so? None of those countries are lacking in future local resources but foreign investments for them are a means of reducing things such as labor cost and substantial profit gains.
yes also. But among GCC members... Qatar has invested even more... I saw a report... where their foreign land investment almost equal those of GCC combined.
I'm sure you know there is a huge difference between Qatar and Egypt. This is Qatar's greenery.
They have no choice but to be involved in foreign investments and they import most of their food whereas Egypt is currently attracting foreign investments that have a minimum percentage for local benefits first in order to be purchased. So they're being pretty smart about it. Egypt has staggering amounts of untapped land that can be farmed and expanded. We've only seen a tiny percentage being used from the past 2 centuries.
the only ptoblem with Egypt is their lacking foreign policy and their centric minded expension... they are thinking mostly in the incoming 2 decades at max...
2 decades? Come on, bro. We've been at it since 7000 BC, ma man.
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