Diversified economy, sources in Cairo The most important are: agriculture. Not to exceed the area of agricultural land in the province of Cairo 15 thousand acres, which A small space, especially if compared to the total area of agricultural land in Egypt that exceed Six million acres, which confirms the urban nature of the compelling administrative ex officio And its geographical and historical status.So it does not exceed the number of workers in agriculture Cairo 18 thousand workers which is equivalent to less than 0.3% of the total population Cairo with activity Economic.
One of the characteristics of agriculture in Cairo intensity of agricultural exploitation and the small size of individual ownership From Agricultural land that does not exceed an average of 0.6 per acre, although the overall average Individual ownership at the level of Egypt as a whole up to 1.5 acres per capita approx.
Witness the breadth Imran The city during the various stages of growth contraction in the area of agricultural land, whether those Was surrounded by buildings at parties, especially in the north and the south, or that permeate Ranges built in the form of scattered patches quickly shrunk even completely disappeared from the map The city at the present time.
There is limited agricultural land is limited space in Cairo on the northern edges And South America, where there are crops, vegetables and fruit trees that contribute to the provision A limited part of some of the needs of the city's population of these crops.