Follow Agriculture in Egyptby | 11-10-2016 17:33 |
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   Second, agriculture in the modern era :- Egypt witnessed an important development in the nineteenth century through the establishment of a number of irrigation projects to dig canals to the establishment of barrages and reservoirs One of the main canals Abrahamic three major braches Behairy Tawfeqi and Menoufi and the consequent increase in farmland in Egypt from about one million acres in 1813 to about millions Alalfdan 1852 was also established Barrages charity in 1861, which contributed to the introduction of the permanent irrigation system in Lower Egypt. The main crops grown during this period are wheat, barley, rice, sugar cane, flax, cotton, wheat was a private in the Egyptian agriculture position and was able to cotton to occupy that position, especially with the increase in the export of cotton and start importing wheat from abroad after large areas has shifted from land to cultivate cotton instead of wheat. In the first half of the twentieth century has been the completion of a large number of projects have been established Aswan Dam in 1902 and the Aqueduct Zifta in the same year, and was created in 1909 and then in addition to Esna Barrage established Hammadi succeeded in 1930. During this period, it increased the cultivated area was created as the first of the Ministry of Agriculture in 1913 and was this period real stage at the start of the cotton crop in terms of quantities cultivated or quantities exported and that was on wheat, barley, beans and other crops spaces account and become a cotton crop mainstay of foreign trade in the period. In 1908 and it reached the Egyptian cotton exports to 17 Mellon pounds and was more than 90% of the total Egyptian exports and Britain had the largest share of these exports accounting for about two-thirds of Egyptian cotton exports was observed in this period that any deficiency in the Egyptian cotton production reflected negative impact on the physical conditions of the farmers and the national economy as a whole. After World War , I evolved the importance of cotton, Egypt adopted the attic totally dependent as a source of national income, as well as the farmer relied upon to pay its debts and obligations by the government in addition to providing social obligations has grown widened until it reached one-third of the cultivated area. During the second half of the twentieth century has been the establishment of the High Dam and the most important transformations in the history of Egyptian agriculture, where possible, to control the waters of the Nile, where Egypt was prone to floods and other times of drought has cultivated area has increased, as well as increasing the most crop production due to advance science and technology, both in the farming methods or the use of a multitude production of crop strains, as most agricultural laws issued in this period, for example, the agrarian reform law and the law of Agriculture No. 53 of 1966 which was amended to counter some of the negative phenomena on agriculture, such as banning the use of rims scoop outside the licensed gins, which was threatening the spread of worms almonds and other harmful pests, as well as the prohibition of dredging and constructing buildings on farmland. It was used the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Egyptian territory in the writing of this report : ( http://www.agr-egypt.gov.eg/AgricHistory.aspx )
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