Trucks carrying logs cross the lock.Due to the prevailing climatic conditions in Egypt, particularly, the scarcity of rain, the chance of having natural forests is nil. To develop and upgrade the forests, the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation has worked to expand water courses, drains and roads to increase the timber resources through introducing new and high-economic value varieties as windbreaks and as shades to south the high temperature, degrees, introduced new fast growing Eucalyptus varieties to use its flowers as non-timber products as well as for rearing and breeding honey-bees, introduced two new varieties of Mal-Berries with the aim of encouraging and developing natural silk industry in the Egyptian villages and rural areas, and has upgraded and established 25 nurseries for timber trees.