Ashraf Kamal, Professor of Agricultural Economics at the National Research Center of Egypt, confirmed that the construction of the new Dayrut Dam on the Ibrahimiya Canal is a very important project and one of the mega projects.
The professor of agricultural economics added in an exclusive statement to RT that the importance of the new Dayrut Dam project is due to its importance due to the fact that the installed dams serve several major and minor canals in the northern and central region of Upper Egypt. governorates of Assiut, Minya, Beni Suef, Faiyum and Giza.
He noted that this contributes to the regular supply of irrigation water to the regions of northern and central Upper Egypt, and is an integral part of the strategy of the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources to maximize the use of available water volumes. , which greatly helps in achieving a higher degree of food security and increasing the level of food self-sufficiency. Strategic crops for the Egyptian state.
Dr. Ashraf Kamal, professor of agricultural economics, noted that irrigation projects in Egypt are based on two main directions, the first of which is the development of traditional water resources, and the second is the rationalization of irrigation water consumption.
He explained that the development of traditional sources of irrigation is carried out along several main lines, the most important of which is the reuse of agricultural drainage water for use in irrigation, as in the case of Mahsama station and Bahr al-Baqar station, to feed and irrigate the North and Central Sinai, as well as the Hammam station, which is scheduled to open soon to power the New Delta project, as well as rainwater harvesting projects to collect water in Roman tanks at Marsa Matruh and on the north coast.
He emphasized that in relation to the rationalization axis of irrigation water consumption, it includes the use of modern irrigation methods such as sprinkler irrigation, drip irrigation and pivot irrigation, as well as the reduction in the cultivation of moisture-loving crops such as rice, sugarcane and bananas, in addition to the canal lining project to improve the efficiency of the field irrigation process.
The Dayrut Dam is one of the oldest waterworks in Egypt, already 150 years old when it was founded in 1871.
It consists of 5 dams serving 7 sub-channels in five governorates (Assiut, Minya, Beni Suef, Fayoum and Giza) to serve about 1.656 million acres of agricultural land with a capacity of 9.60 billion m3/year.
The Dayrut Group is located on the Ibrahimi Canal in the city of Dayrut and feeds 7 sub-channels, namely the Coastal Canal, Ibrahimiya Canal, Al Ibrahimiya Canal, Al Baderman Canal, Bahr Yousef Canal, Abu Jabel Canal and Deljawi Canal.
Source: RT
