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fruit trees give an extra economic incentive and also improve land productivity. This
practice can be done by separation between fruit trees and wheat cultivated area to
prevent the runoff of irrigation water to these trees (WOCAT 2016).
We assumed that 16% of the cultivated area by fruit trees will be used to intercropped wheat with 70% of its recommended planting density. Table 6.9 showed
that 113.8 thousand hectares of the total fruit trees area could be assigned to be
intercropped with wheat. This area will produce 838.2 thousand tons of wheat seeds.
Table 6.8 Sugar beet cultivated area, assigned area to wheat intercropped with sugar beet and
wheat production
Sugar beet cultivated area
(000 ha)
Assigned area to wheat
(000 ha)
Wheat production
(000 ton)
Lower Egypt
Alexandria
2.8
0.7
2.6
Behira
16.5
4.1
16.1
Gharbia
6.0
1.5
5.6
Kafr El
Sheikh
54.2
13.5
48.5
Dakahlia
35.9
9.0
38.8
Damietta
2.0
0.5
1.9
Sharkia
33.0
8.2
31.5
Ismailia
3.6
0.9
3.2
Port Said
12.3
3.1
16.0
Suez
0.1
0.04
0.1
Menoufia
0.8
0.2
0.8
Qalyubia
0.1
0.04
0.1
Total
167.4
41.8
165.1
Middle Egypt
Giza
1.4
0.3
1.5
Bani Sweif
13.3
3.3
13.1
Fayoum
12.8
3.2
11.4
Minya
13.4
3.4
13.1
Total
41.0
10.2
39.1
Upper Egypt
Assiut
2.1
0.5
2.1
New Valley
0.8
0.2
0.6
Total
2.9
0.7
2.7
Bordered governorates
Marsa
Matrouh
8.0
2.0
4.0
North Sinai
0.6
0.14
0.1
South Sinai
0.3
0.07
0.1
Total
8.9
2.2
4.2
Grand total
220.1
55.0
211.0
6 Wheat Insufficiency and Deficit Irrigation