Question

give an account of agriculture in the nile valley

Answer 1

The amazing and apparently everlasting fertility of the Nile

Valley which has always been a favorite theme of travelers in

Egypt, possesses a special interest for those who are working

toward an understanding of the problems incidental to the recla-

mation and development of arid areas.

Under present social conditions matters are at rest along the

Nile, and this has rendered possible those vast engineering works,

designed for the conservation and utilization of the river water,

which represent the last word in irrigation practice, and for the

moment serve as models for the rest of the world.

Any adequate conception of Egypt, however, must always

take into consideration, in addition to these modern develop-

ments, the real economic backbone of the country: the teeming

population of the hundreds of mud-walled villages, whose methods

of irrigation and intensive cultivation, primitive though they

may be, are still responsible for the larger part of her present

prosperity.

In common with all other rivers which combine heavily silt-

laden flood water with a regularly fluctuating seasonal flow, the

Nile is continually building for itself an elevated trough above the

general level of its valley floor, and this fact has in great measure

determined the character of irrigation evolved for the adjacent

land.

Answer 2

Answer:

Farmers in the Nile Valley have always grown many of their crops close to the river. The Nile used to flood between June and September/October, depositing new fertile soils each year which the farmers grew their crops on.