[DOC] [TLE] Egypt - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [PAR] Egypt is divided into twenty-six governorates (see Figure 1c) , which include four 
city ... Egypt (in the Nile Delta region), eight in Upper Egypt along the Nile River 
from Cairo to ... Egyptian agriculture is almost entirely dependent on irrigation. ... 
Of this agricultural land, 3 276 000 ha (7.8 million feddan) lie within the Nile 
Basin... [DOC] [TLE] Irrigation in Mexico - Wikipedia [PAR] Mexico, a classified arid and semi-arid country, has a total land area of 2 million 
square ... There are approximately 100 rivers in the Western or Pacific Watershed
, the most ... By the late 1980s, Mexico had about 6 million ha under irrigation. ... 
of the National Irrigation Commission and, for the first time, responsibility for 
water... [DOC] [TLE] Egypt facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] Get information, facts, and pictures about Egypt at Encyclopedia.com. ... The 
outstanding topographic feature is the Nile River, on which human existence ... 
irrigation and to reclaim about 1 million feddans (about 1.04 million acres) of land
. ... The expanded irrigation of desert areas after completion of the Aswan High 
Dam in... [DOC] [TLE] Farming the Sahara | TakePart [PAR] Jan 8, 2016 ... By adding so much farmland to Egypt's current 8.4 million acres (and perhaps ... 
Desert reclamation projects close to the Nile River have had greater success .... 
Irrigation pivots keep alfalfa plants at the Kadco farm at Toshka green ... of 
domestic agricultural land climbed from 6 million acres to 8.4 million. [DOC] [TLE] The Nile River - Egypt's Future Depends on Modern Agriculture [PAR] Over 5.5 million ha are under irrigation, with plans to expand an area of over 4.9 
... The lands to the south of them that bordered the river were in constant danger. 
.... into question the responsibility and justice of Egypt's stewardship of Nile 
waters. .... the Peace Canal ... and will irrigate 600,000 acres in the North Sinai 
desert. [DOC] [TLE] cotton production in egypt - National Agricultural Library Digital ... [PAR] Relative humidity. 6. Minor factors. 6. Soil of the agricultural area. 7. Irrigation. 8 ... 
responsible but world-wide influences over which the country has little .... 
production area is confined to the valley and the delta of the Nile River. ... are in 
Upper Egypt and 5,498,629 acres in Lower Egypt. ..... vation by several million 
acres. [DOC] [TLE] The status of Egypt's agricultural lands using MODIS Aqua data [PAR] Apr 11, 2013 ... Irrigated agriculture appeared in Egypt thousands of years ago due to the ... The 
cultivated lands in Egypt are, therefore, confined to the course of the River Nile 
within ... and the total area of cultivated lands counted about 6 million feddan .... 
acres of agricultural land due to urbanization (World Bank, 1990). [DOC] [TLE] Taming the River Nile | News & Features | JICA [PAR] More than virtually any other country, Egypt and its people rely on one single 
natural resource for ... An estimated 3.5 million feddan (3.62 million acres) of land 
were under ... Local farmers maintain a new irrigation pumping station in the 
Delta. [DOC] [TLE] Willem Oltmans, On Growth Two  dbnl [PAR] Professor Mohammed Kassas was born July 6, 1921, in the fishing village of ... 
These people were cultivating five million acres of land, or an average of one 
acre per man. ... Less than 3 percent of the land area of Egypt is irrigated and 
cultivated. ... This is our situation: We are dry, short of water, and our rivers used 
to empty... [DOC] [TLE] Egypt's water minister says country facing 'critical phase' - Al-Monitor [PAR] Apr 10, 2016 ... CAIRO  Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation ... or reuse it six 
times, [something necessary] in light of the population growth. ... which 
represents another challenge in managing the river system in ... Abdel Ati: The 
philosophy of the 1.5 million acres project relies on cultivating land of no more... [DOC] [TLE]

Question: This river is responsible for irrigating about 6 million acres of land in Egypt
Answer: Nile