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In an effort to revive the Egypt’s rewarding cotton industry that can help its stagnant economy, the farmers enlarge the area planted with cotton. Farmers at Fayoum province, some 100 km south of Cairo, cultivated one feddan (1 feddan=1.038 acres) of land with the finest long-staple cotton (known in Egypt as Giza 95). He will double his cotton field next year.
The farmers said that the ministry of agriculture helps them by providing subsided seeds and fertilizers necessary for the treatment of the plants to get high-quality cotton.
