date:Apr 22, 2014
ve not yet begun harvesting their crop. Hadid also said that government was predicting a productivity rate of 2.85 tonnes per feddan (0.42 hectares).
Hadid had told Reuters in an interview in November that Egypt was targeting an increase in productivity per feddan to 3-3.2 tonnes, without specifying the timeframe to achieve this. Some 3.2 million feddans (1.34 million hectares) of land has been planted with wheat this year, according to a state newspaper article on Sunday that cited a governme