http://english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=346143&SecID=22&IssueID=149 Great news!!! There is a lot of talk about populating more of Sinai for security reasons, to grow enough wheat, to solar farm and water desalination, mine gold and precious elements, develop tourism, grow expensive crops to export, settle Bedouin, build more airports, move out people from the cities to the Sina, etc etc etc Hopefully this will pass the cabinet. Now what am I going to do with my 20 acres My dad can take his plane to Sinai rather than Fayoum. The Bedouin will be very happy about this news.
Well 20 fedans is better for agricultural project than the 5 fedan which were redistributed in the last revolution.
Will they be restricted in selling the land? Else you get poor people selling it and that ruins the idea.
Do you think any poor Egyptian is going to get land for free ? Only a degenerate westerner can come up with such a preposterous idea.
Where my house is there is quite a big plantation of different species of trees. There are also rows and rows of small olive, orange, lemon and tamarind farms. A few garden centres. It's not a big town. Plenty of desert and sand but it is being cultivated bit by bit the only problem is the price of water although the farmers have a big discount and I guess they will get even bigger discount because they all use drip irrigation unlike the Nile Valley which wastes a lot of water.
New cheap irrigation system to help small farmers... Cheap drip irrigation could transform small farms October 20, 2011 - Peter Frykman founded Driptech to provide low-cost drip-irrigation systems to small farmers, hiking their crop yields by 20 to 90 percent.
