• This Bustan Aquaponics farm in Cairo uses an ecologically balanced system and consumes 90 per cent less water than traditional farming practices. All photos: Reuters
    This Bustan Aquaponics farm in Cairo uses an ecologically balanced system and consumes 90 per cent less water than traditional farming practices. All photos: Reuters
  • The Bustan Aquaponics farm in Cairo, Egypt
    The Bustan Aquaponics farm in Cairo, Egypt
  • An employee checks plants at the farm
    An employee checks plants at the farm
  • Lettuce grown in a greenhouse that is part of an aquaponics system at the farm
    Lettuce grown in a greenhouse that is part of an aquaponics system at the farm
  • Farm produce being labelled
    Farm produce being labelled
  • Lettuce being harvested
    Lettuce being harvested
  • Om Omar sells Nile tilapia fish at the Sayeda Zainab fish market during Ramadan in Cairo
    Om Omar sells Nile tilapia fish at the Sayeda Zainab fish market during Ramadan in Cairo
  • A boy fishing on the Manasterly Bridge over the Nile in Cairo
    A boy fishing on the Manasterly Bridge over the Nile in Cairo
  • Bustan Aquaponics employee Syed Hamid at a Nile tilapia farming pond in Cairo
    Bustan Aquaponics employee Syed Hamid at a Nile tilapia farming pond in Cairo
  • Bustan Aquaponics employee Mahmoud Abdelaziz feeding fish at a fish farm
    Bustan Aquaponics employee Mahmoud Abdelaziz feeding fish at a fish farm
  • Nile tilapia at a Bustan Aquaponics farming pond
    Nile tilapia at a Bustan Aquaponics farming pond
  • Fish being cleaned for iftar at Sayeda Zainab fish market in Cairo during Ramadan
    Fish being cleaned for iftar at Sayeda Zainab fish market in Cairo during Ramadan

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Egyptian company uses ecological farming methods to preserve water - in pictures

Bustan Aquaponics employs systems that consume 90 per cent less water than traditional farming practices

The National

April 01, 2023

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Updated: April 01, 2023, 8:51 AM
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