Solar-powered irrigation has begun to be introduced to the agriculture in Egypt

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Solar-powered irrigation has begun to be introduced to the agriculture in Egypt, a positive step toward developing the renewable energy industry. In the past two days, a solar powered irrigation plant was inaugurated in Esna city, Luxor, to supply 42 acres with water.

The solar powered irrigation plant is part of the Climate Changes project launched by the Executive Agency for Comprehensive Development Projects at Thomas 3 Village in Esna.

Egypt possesses a very high potential of utilizing solar energy, one of the highest in the MENA region. The introduction of solar powered pumps presents an opportunity to abandon non-sustainable and non-reliable fossil fuel powered generators.

In this regard, Othman el-Shaikh, project manager of the "Building Resilient Food Security Systems to Benefit the Southern Egypt Region", remarked that the solar powered irrigation plant built in Esna will limit the usage of fossil fuel in irrigation, especially that Luxor and Aswan are very sunny in summer and winter.

Egypt's average level of solar radiation is between 2,000 to 3,200kWh per square meter a year, but it has imported gas to operate electricity generating plants all over the country.

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