Chinese well drilling firm helps turn Egypt's desert into green farmland

STORY: Chinese well drilling firm helps turn Egypt's desert into green farmland DATELINE: July 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: MINYA, Egypt CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): AARON BALDWIN, Agriculture general manager of Canal Sugar 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHOU GUIQIANG, Tool pusher of ZPEC branch in Egypt 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): AARON BALDWIN, Agriculture general manager of Canal Sugar STORYLINE: With over 150 water wells drilled under the help of a Chinese firm, the desert west of southern Egypt's Minya province has turned into large pieces of beet fields, which feed a beet processing factory. Aaron Baldwin is the agriculture general manager of Canal Sugar, a 1-billion-U.S.-dollar joint venture between Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). SOUNDBITE 1 (English): AARON BALDWIN, Agriculture general manager of Canal Sugar "This will be our second year, and we've seen about a 50 percent increase over last year in yield. So we feel that we've got a very good model." The Canal