The signboard at the ICA Egypt demonstration farm project where we improved the desert fruit farm technology and upgraded the irrigation system. Bayad El Arab on The East Side of The Nile 2. A view from the east river bank of the Nile and a sand bar in the middle. There is ripe corn on this side and corn cut down on the other. Several crops of corn can be planted each year because the summer season is long and there is plenty of sunshine.
Some people live by fishing from small boats in the Nile.
A pump which supplies water to the demonstration farm in Bayad El Arab. People traditionally only engaged in agriculture within 500 meters of the bank of the Nile where there is a good water supply. But it is very difficult to engage in agriculture further than 500 meters from the Nile. Water is the key factor for agriculture on the east side of the Nile. The Sahara agricultural technology exihibition.