The directive places Future of Egypt Authority for Sustainable Development at the centre of a broader state model that links agricultural production, irrigation, storage, logistics, strategic commodities, agro-industry, retail distribution, renewable energy, technical education, research partnerships, climate-oriented urban development, and consumer price stability.
What is Mostaqbal Misr?
The Future of Egypt Authority for Sustainable Development, widely known in Arabic as "Mostaqbal Misr," emerged following the Future of Egypt project, a flagship component of Egypt’s New Delta initiative aimed at expanding cultivated land and strengthening food security.
El-Sisi inaugurated the Future of Egypt project in May 2022, describing it as the first project under the larger New Delta initiative. The project targets the reclamation of 1.05 million feddans as part of the New Delta’s 2.2 million feddans, with EGP 8 billion allocated to the Future of Egypt project and its infrastructure, including roads, power stations, electricity networks, groundwater wells, and irrigation systems.
The authority was first mentioned by name in an official presidential statement in March 2023, when its executive director participated in a meeting with the president on strategic agricultural projects.
Since then, official statements indicate that the Future of Egypt Authority for Sustainable Development has evolved from a land-reclamation and agricultural-production project into a broader development platform encompassing food security, storage, logistics, commodity trade, agro-industry, livestock, fisheries, infrastructure, renewable energy, retail outlets, technical education, research partnerships, urban development, and investment cooperation.
In May 2025, El-Sisi inaugurated the authority’s headquarters in Cairo’s Almaza district via video conference during an event marking the opening of the first phase of the Future of Egypt Industrial City and the 2025 wheat harvest season.
The headquarters covers 11,100 square metres and can accommodate between 450 and 500 people. It includes a 150-seat conference hall, a 300-car garage, cybersecurity and smart surveillance systems, and 7,700 square metres of landscaped areas irrigated using modern systems.
Consumer outlets and price stabilization
The authority's latest responsibility is to help lower household living costs by improving the flow of basic commodities from production and storage to consumers.
Under El-Sisi’s directives on Saturday, the authority will work with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Supply on a national programme to expand permanent outlets and markets, improve supply-chain controls, and stabilize prices of basic commodities.
The initiative builds on earlier retail distribution efforts, including the Super Tawofeer network, which has been reported to include 1,337 outlets nationwide. More recent official figures put the total at 1,405 outlets offering 20 basic strategic commodities under the "Kheirha" brand.
The government has also promoted Carry On as a modern retail model for basic commodities. Four branches were reported to have opened in 2025. The model aims to modernize consumer outlets and help balance prices by increasing the availability of basic goods.
Agriculture, New Delta and land reclamation
Agriculture remains the authority’s core foundation, with Mostaqbal Misr working alongside the Ministry of Agriculture within the state’s broader agricultural expansion strategy.
The Future of Egypt Project for Sustainable Agriculture is located along the new Rod El-Farag–Dabaa Axis, about 30 minutes from 6th of October City. The axis was established under the National Road Project with a length of 120 kilometres and a depth of 60-70 kilometres.
The project is divided into 60 linear roads and 35 cross roads, creating equal plots of 1,000 feddans each.
The project’s location gives it access to labour, production inputs, domestic markets, land ports, and airports for export. Reclamation and cultivation of 350,000 feddans has been completed using 2,600 developed pivot-irrigation devices, with cultivated areas planted twice a year in the summer and winter seasons.
The wider Mostaqbal Misr reclamation target has been set at 4.5 million acres by 2027, as part of Egypt’s broader agricultural expansion, agro-processing, renewable energy, and digital transformation plans.
Irrigation, water and core infrastructure
Mostaqbal Misr’s agricultural expansion depends on water and infrastructure systems coordinated with state bodies, including the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation and the Ministry of Electricity.
The project relies on treated wastewater, groundwater, and surface water. Treated wastewater is transferred through a 170-kilometre canal and 17 lifting stations to a treatment plant with a capacity of 7.5 million cubic metres per day.
The project also depends on three groundwater reservoirs: Eocene, Miocene, and Maghra, which are extensions of the Wadi Natroun region, with well spacing designed to protect underground reservoirs and prevent over-extraction.
A surface-water source is being introduced through the Future of Egypt Canal, which extends 41 kilometres and has a capacity of 10 million cubic metres per day, to help cultivate about 700,000 additional feddans.
Agro-industry, storage and strategic commodities
Mostaqbal Misr’s agro-industrial work links agricultural production with processing, storage, logistics, and consumer supply, in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Supply, and industrial partners.
Work has begun on an industrial zone as part of the Future of Egypt development plan. Phase 1 includes potato refrigerators, sorting and packing stations, grain storage silos, sifting and seed production stations, soil analysis laboratories, and plant disease facilities. Current components include potato refrigerators with a capacity of 80,000 tons and grain silos with a capacity of 20,000 tons.
Phase 2 includes vegetable and fruit freezing tunnels, a snack factory, a dried onion and garlic factory, a legumes packing and packaging factory, an oil packing and refining factory, a livestock feed factory, and a sheep and cattle farm. Phase 3 includes an oil production plant and an orange sorting and packing station.
Mostaqbal Misr has also assumed a larger role in wheat and other strategic commodities alongside the Ministry of Supply by expanding storage capacity and supporting market stability.
The authority received more than 537,000 tons of local wheat from farmers by 15 June 2026 through nine collection centres. It has also been linked to crude vegetable oil shipments exceeding 74,000 tons and wheat purchases exceeding 600,000 tons for September and October 2025 delivery.
The Sphinx Crop Trading Centre, within the New Delta project area, covers 500 feddans and has an annual trading capacity of over 20 million tons.
Greenhouses, livestock and specialized production
Mostaqbal Misr's specialized agricultural projects support Egypt's broader agricultural development plans in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture.
The project includes a greenhouse component in Al-Lahoun, Fayoum, covering about 16,000 feddans and including around 1,800 Spanish and Egyptian greenhouses. The greenhouses cultivate vegetables, medicinal and aromatic plants, fruit crops, and export-oriented cut flowers.
The Future of Egypt project also includes a land reclamation project in Minya and Beni Suef covering around 80,000 feddans. Planned crops include sugar cane, wheat, maize, fava beans, and alfalfa.
The authority’s mandate also covers animal protein and feed industries, linking agricultural expansion with livestock, poultry, fisheries, aquaculture, food processing, logistics, and consumer supply. Phase Two of the industrial zone includes a livestock feed factory and a sheep and cattle farm.
Energy, climate and industrial partnerships
Mostaqbal Misr is coordinating with the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy on renewable energy projects to support its agricultural, industrial, storage, and urban development activities.
The cooperation covers solar power projects with a combined capacity of 2,320 megawatts and battery energy storage stations with a capacity of 2,000 megawatt-hours, adding an energy security and low-carbon infrastructure dimension to the authority’s model.
Mostaqbal Misr is also involved in urban development projects, including an eco-city being implemented in cooperation with major real estate developers to promote environmental and climate investment.
The authority is exploring cooperation with companies affiliated with the Ministry of Public Business Sector in several areas, including phosphate production, salt industries, and vehicle manufacturing. The discussions aim to improve the use of national assets, increase added value, support production, create jobs and strengthen supply chains.
Education, training and research
Mostaqbal Misr has expanded into technical education through cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Technical Education. Studies are expected to begin at 26 Egyptian-Italian applied agricultural technology schools across 14 governorates in the 2026/2027 academic year.
The schools are intended to train skilled technicians in modern agriculture, food processing, livestock and poultry production, fisheries, agricultural engineering, and laboratory work, with practical training linked to projects by the Future of Egypt Authority.
The authority is also working with the ministry to link technical education directly with real production sites. The two sides have discussed joint programmes to integrate students into real work environments, connect technical specializations with project needs, and study the establishment of modern training centres in Mostaqbal Misr project areas.
Mostaqbal Misr and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research have also agreed to move ahead with a strategic partnership linking universities, research centres, and the authority to turn scientific outputs into practical applications. The partnership aims to localize technology, improve production quality, mobilize national expertise and youth capacity, and support Egypt’s Vision 2030, including through funding mechanisms for priority applied research projects.
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