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Desert agriculture in the Toshka region, Egypt
Earth Observation | Copernicus
Agriculture
Location: Egypt
Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery
Food production in Egypt, a largely desert country, has long benefited from the fertile lands along the Nile. In the late 1990s, the ambitious New Valley, or Toshka Project, set out to reclaim desert land for agricultural usage by channelling water from Lake Nasser into the Western Desert, which is part of the Sahara.
The different colours in this composite multitemporal NDVI image (obtained by combining multiple Copernicus Sentinel-2 images acquired on 1 February, 28 March, and 21 April 2025) show the different stages of plant development in the centre-pivot irrigation systems of the Toshka region, located between Lake Nasser and the Toshka Lakes.
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