{"id":3096,"date":"2025-10-20T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:38:56","slug":"desert-research-center-intensifies-efforts-to-survey-and-classify-toshka-lands-to-support-agricultural-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/?p=3096&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Desert Research Center intensifies efforts to survey and classify Toshka lands to support agricultural expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Desert Research Center has intensified its efforts to survey and classify the lands of Toshka, following directives from Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Mr. Alaa Farouk and in cooperation with the \u201cFuture of Egypt for Sustainable Development\u201d authority. The initiative aims to maximize the use of Toshka spillway waters for agricultural expansion in areas surrounding the lakes<br \/>\nThis move comes as part of the Ministry\u2019s plan to conduct comprehensive soil studies, under the supervision of Dr. Hosam Shawky, President of DRC, and led by Dr. Mohamed Ezzat, Vice President for Projects and Research Stations. The studies aim to explore about <strong>320,000 feddans south of Paris Oasis<\/strong><br \/>\nThe research seeks to <strong>assess the suitability of desert lands for cultivation<\/strong>, identify <strong>the most appropriate agricultural practices and crop patterns<\/strong>, and integrate these lands into <strong>South Egypt\u2019s reclamation projects<\/strong>, thereby <strong>maximizing the utilization of Toshka Lakes\u2019 water resources<\/strong> to advance horizontal agricultural expansion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desert Research Center has intensified its efforts to survey and classify the lands of Toshka, following directives from Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Mr. Alaa Farouk and in cooperation with the \u201cFuture of Egypt for Sustainable Development\u201d authority. The initiative aims to maximize the use of Toshka spillway waters for agricultural expansion in areas..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drc.gov.eg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}