The Agricultural industry in Egypt has always played a major role in Egypt’s economy. Irrigation for a desert like climate as Egypt is its livelihood and this all depends on the Nile River. Since ancient times the Nile river’s irrigation shaped ancient Egypt and ancient Egyptians were able to produce an abundance of food, as a result this gave Egyptians an advantage allowing them to focus more of their time and resources to other aspects of a civilization such as technology, and cultural pursuits. The Ancient Egyptians cultivated crops such as emmer, barley, and several other grains all in which was used to make the two main food staples of bread and beer. Flooding season only lasted from June to September and in these crucial four months of
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The agricultural sector alone employs over six million Egyptians with more than six thousand businesses which accounts for almost a quarter of Egypt’s GDP. For decades ever since Egypt gained its independence in 1952 Egypt's economy was focused on the remittances of its ancient civilization tourism was getting all the attention as the source of income for Egyptians, agriculture being an important part of Egypt’s Gross Domestic Product was often ignored. Egypt’s powerful agriculture sector has been in a sharp decline over the past thirty years but still manages to account for a significant percentage of the country’s GDP according to statistics that was provided by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) only three percent of Egypt’s land is arable which is a percentage that hasn’t really changed for the past three decades. The government has attempted to reclaim land for cultivation since the mid 80’s and has successfully managed to reclaim one million acres of land and there is plans to reclaim another three point five million acres by 2017. Although the nation of Egypt is well aware the agricultural sector is key to economic success efforts to move towards that direction has not come with it fair share of challenges like income distribution. During the 80’s Egypt’s …show more content…
According to 2013 statistics the population of Egypt is a little over 82 million with a steady growth rate of 1.96%, the bulk of its population is rural at about 58%. Population density figures show that the majority of Egyptians live within reasonable distance to the Nile River, there is hundreds of thousands square kilometers that is practically a dead zone because the desert like conditions are too harsh for sustaining human life. The nation has no beneficial rainfall except a small region in the northern coast and so the only main source of water supply will be the Nile. Although the Nile river is the longest river in the world it’s water supply is limited and so the water supply is governed by the water-sharing treaty act with the number of upstream countries it flows through like Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DRC, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Congo, South Sudan and Sudan. The White Nile is the primary source of the Nile River and it begins out of the Great Lakes region, the Blue Nile is the second major source of the river and it begins in Lake Tana of Ethiopia. There is a number of other sources of the Nile including the Ruvyironza River in Burundi and the Nyabarongo River in Rwanda. A total of 62.6 billion meters cubed of water from
The agricultural sector alone employs over six million Egyptians with more than six thousand businesses which accounts for almost a quarter of Egypt’s GDP. For decades ever since Egypt gained its independence in 1952 Egypt's economy was focused on the remittances of its ancient civilization tourism was getting all the attention as the source of income for Egyptians, agriculture being an important part of Egypt’s Gross Domestic Product was often ignored. Egypt’s powerful agriculture sector has been in a sharp decline over the past thirty years but still manages to account for a significant percentage of the country’s GDP according to statistics that was provided by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) only three percent of Egypt’s land is arable which is a percentage that hasn’t really changed for the past three decades. The government has attempted to reclaim land for cultivation since the mid 80’s and has successfully managed to reclaim one million acres of land and there is plans to reclaim another three point five million acres by 2017. Although the nation of Egypt is well aware the agricultural sector is key to economic success efforts to move towards that direction has not come with it fair share of challenges like income distribution. During the 80’s Egypt’s …show more content…
According to 2013 statistics the population of Egypt is a little over 82 million with a steady growth rate of 1.96%, the bulk of its population is rural at about 58%. Population density figures show that the majority of Egyptians live within reasonable distance to the Nile River, there is hundreds of thousands square kilometers that is practically a dead zone because the desert like conditions are too harsh for sustaining human life. The nation has no beneficial rainfall except a small region in the northern coast and so the only main source of water supply will be the Nile. Although the Nile river is the longest river in the world it’s water supply is limited and so the water supply is governed by the water-sharing treaty act with the number of upstream countries it flows through like Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DRC, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Congo, South Sudan and Sudan. The White Nile is the primary source of the Nile River and it begins out of the Great Lakes region, the Blue Nile is the second major source of the river and it begins in Lake Tana of Ethiopia. There is a number of other sources of the Nile including the Ruvyironza River in Burundi and the Nyabarongo River in Rwanda. A total of 62.6 billion meters cubed of water from