The activity of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi included pushing major national projects forward including the project of land reclamation of a million and a half feddans along with development projects in the Suez Canal and developing east Port Said port.

Sisi ordered to expand a national project to reclaim one million feddans to be 1.5 million feddans.

Sisi gave his directives at a meeting with Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouli, Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Hossam Moghazi and Agriculture Minister Salah Hilal.

The meeting tackled the outcome of a tour made by the prime minister and the three ministers to inspect plots of land in Minya and Qena governorates.

The agriculture minister noted that the one-million feddan project will include integrated agricultural urban communities and agricultural industrialization zones.

The agriculture minister reviewed the current situation of wells that will be used for irrigating the lands of the project.

The housing minister reviewed the ongoing coordination between the ministries concerned to connect the land that will be reclaimed with the road projects that will be carried out as part of a national plan.