Gov’t to allocate another 100k feddans of the 1.5 mn feddans project for farmers in June

The government is planning to allocate another 100k feddans to individual farmers in late June as part of the 1.5 mn feddan desert reclamation project, Al Shorouk reports. The land plots will be located in West Minya, Farafra Oasis, and Maghara. The Egyptian Countryside Development Company announced last month that it was planning to tender 800k feddans this year under the 1.5 mn feddan project, of which 116k feddans were cultivated in FY2017-18, according to a recent CAPMAS release.