Egypt’s single biggest desert agricultural development is the New Valley Project, better known as Toshka ( strictly speaking one of New Valley’s constituent parts), which lies close to the Sudanese border to the west of the Nile, deep in Upper Egypt. Toshka, intended to be a “second Nile Valley”, covers some 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) and is irrigated by a combination of ground...
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Articles & Analysis | Long-term projects create arable tracts from arid land from The Report: Egypt 2014
Articles & Analysis | The expanding citrus industry seeks to add value to output from The Report: Egypt 2014
One of the world’s main producers of oranges, Egypt is also the second-biggest exporter of the fruit. Oranges account for 30% of fruit production and 65% of citrus production, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
Articles & Analysis | There is optimism in the hotel industry as signs of stability return from The Report: Egypt 2014
The Beatles hit song about getting by “with a little help from my friends” could well become a theme tune for kick-starting the recovery of Egypt’s tourism sector after more than three years of battering. By 2012 the Ministry of Tourism (MoT) was already appealing to Arabs in the Gulf region to spend their vacations in Egypt to help compensate for the disappearing...
Articles & Analysis | Mega-projects abound as a nation rebuilds itself from The Report: Egypt 2014
Like many sectors in the country, construction has had more than its fair share of challenges in recent years. Yet in spite of the downside risks, the prospects for the building industry have not been brighter for decades. As Ayman Tolba, the chairman and CEO of Leena Real Estate, told OBG, “Egypt’s young and growing population can support strong growth in the construction of...
Articles & Analysis | Amnesty proposed for registration and repairs on unlicensed housing from The Report: Egypt 2014
A tried and tested solution to many breaches of the law throughout the world is to legalise the activity – and then tax it. This is the approach the Egyptian authorities have considered towards the issue of illegal construction. A draft law put forward in August 2014 will permit an amnesty period of six months in an attempt to tackle a problem that has existed for decades, but...
Articles & Analysis | Development authority sees record revenues from investment deals from The Report: Egypt 2014
With an eye to the future, Egypt’s Tourism Development Authority (TDA) is concentrating on what seems at first sight some of the world’s most unlikely investment projects. While the tourism industry has been suffering body blows since the revolution of January 25, 2011 – and subsequent upheavals – the TDA has been seeking out investors for major tourist development...