{"id":130501,"date":"2025-06-04T00:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130501"},"modified":"2025-06-04T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:06:12","slug":"sweet-deal-how-chinas-agritech-helped-turn-egypts-desert-into-top-sugar-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130501","title":{"rendered":"Sweet deal: how China\u2019s agritech helped turn Egypt\u2019s desert into top sugar farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNear the edge of the Sahara Desert, in Egypt\u2019s West Minya, Chinese drillers bore deep into the earth, tapping groundwater to irrigate a once 500-hectare stretch of desert \u2013 now home to the world\u2019s largest beet sugar factory.<br \/>\nChina\u2019s Zhongman Petroleum has drilled 193 wells over the past three years to irrigate the farm, which supplies Canal Sugar \u2013 a joint venture backed by investors from the United Arab Emirates and Egypt \u2013 with an annual capacity of 900,000 tonnes, according to the state-run&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3312892\/chinas-agritech-brings-water-egypts-giant-beet-sugar-factory-sahara-desert?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNear the edge of the Sahara Desert, in Egypt\u2019s West Minya, Chinese drillers bore deep into the earth, tapping groundwater to irrigate a once&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}