By Saraa Al-Mahalwi

January 2022

Toshka Project.. What are the gains that Egypt reaps from it?

The project aims to overcome the food gap by increasing the agricultural area by about 540 thousand Acre to reach one million acre in the future, as well as maximizing the return on available resources and increasing agricultural exports, which helps reduce the trade balance deficit, in addition to providing job opportunities for many young people, especially from the youth of Upper Egypt, it also aims to encourage the reconstruction, housing and development of these areas and to reduce human pressure on the Nile Valley and Delta. The project includes the establishment of several factories for the packaging of agricultural crops; It also aims to create new areas in Egypt equipped and paved with a new road network to link the cities of Upper Egypt and the population centers.