Egypt unveils strategy to adapt to water shortages
With a growing population, limited water resources, and the prospect of a decreased annual share from the Nile River, Egypt finds itself obliged to revert to water-saving agricultural practices.
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have disclosed a new strategy to conform to limited water resources amid expectations of a reduced annual share from the Nile River because of the dam constructed by Ethiopia.
Egypt's Agriculture and Land Reclamation Minister Al-Sayed al-Quseir has said that his country's farmers would have to limit the cultivation of water-intensive crop species, including food grains and cash crops.
At an April 27 conference on Egypt's new structural reforms strategy, Quseir also said farmers would have to expand the cultivation of crop species that need small amounts of irrigation water to grow.
"We will have to put limits on the cultivation of water-intensive crop species," the minister said.
