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Wheat Intercropped Under Fruit Trees
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 8.13 showed that 99.0
thousand hectares of the total fruit trees area (609.3 thousand hectares) could be
assigned to be intercropped with wheat. This area will produce 729.2 thousand tons
of wheat seeds in 2030, which is lower than wheat production in 2017 by 11%.
Wheat Intercropped with Sugarcane
Under wheat intercropped with fall sugarcane system (Ahmed et  al. 2013), we
assumed that 10% of the fall sugarcane area will be assigned to be cultivated with
the wheat intercropping system. Table 8.14 indicated that, under this system, the
total production of wheat from the assigned area will be reduced from 100.4 thousand tons in 2017 to 83.3 thousand tons, with 19% reduction.
Table 8.11 Potential cultivated area of cotton, assigned area to wheat intercropping system, wheat
production and percentage of reduction in wheat production compared to its value in 2017
Cotton area
(000 ha)
Assigned area to
wheat (000 ha)
Wheat production
(000 ton)
PR in production
(%)
Lower Egypt
Alexandria
0.24
0.22
1.4
16
Behira
5.1
4.6
32.4
16
Gharbia
1.8
1.6
10.7
15
Kafr El
Sheikh
16.5
14.9
95.8
16
Dakahlia
6.9
6.2
48.0
14
Damietta
2.2
2.0
12.9
16
Sharkia
5.8
5.2
35.8
16
Ismailia
0.2
0.1
0.9
17
Port Said
0.1
0.1
0.6
14
Menoufia
0.3
0.3
2.3
17
Qalyubia
0.009
0.008
0.1
20
Total
39.1
35.2
240.4
16
Middle Egypt
Bani Sweif
1.8
1.6
11.6
16
Fayoum
4.1
3.7
23.5
16
Minya
0.04
0.03
0.2
23
Total
6.0
5.4
35.3
14
Upper Egypt
Assiut
0.9
0.8
5.8
16
Sohag
0.1
0.1
0.7
17
Total
1.0
0.9
6.5
5
Grand total 46.1
41.5
282.2
12
S. Ouda and A. E.-H. Zohry