Egyptian company uses ecological farming methods to preserve water - in pictures
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
An employee checks plants at the farm
Lettuce grown in a greenhouse that is part of an aquaponics system at the farm
Farm produce being labelled
Lettuce being harvested
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
Bustan Aquaponics employee Syed Hamid at a Nile tilapia farming pond in Cairo
Bustan Aquaponics employee Mahmoud Abdelaziz feeding fish at a fish farm
Nile tilapia at a Bustan Aquaponics farming pond
Fish being cleaned for iftar at Sayeda Zainab fish market in Cairo during Ramadan