The Egyptian countryside aims to produce 65,000 tons of potatoes from the 1.5 million feddan project

The potato crop area in the lands of the 1.5 million feddan project reached 4,000 feddans in the Sahel Al-Baraka area in Farafra during the current summer season, compared to 1,000 last season, which is the project under the jurisdiction of the New Egyptian Countryside Company. The summer grape was planted last January with seeds imported from Europe, amounting to more than 144 thousand tons, and it will be harvested next May. Informed sources revealed to Al-Mal that the average yield of an acre in the one-and-a-half-million-feddan project is 16.2 tons per acre, noting that the volume of potato productivity from this area will reach 65,000 tons. She added that the Egyptian Countryside Company aims to double these areas through farmers and partners in the project during the coming years, noting that the products of these pristine lands are exported abroad because they are free of all pathogens. According to data from the Central Administration for Agricultural Quarantine, potato ...