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Land use in Japan is severely restricted by municipal zoning, agricultural land development, and fisheries and port management laws and regulations.
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For now, though, it is still prime agricultural land, supposedly safe from development.
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Two major reasons for this are the conversion of prime agricultural land into residential and commercial development and rising land prices in areas surrounding this increasing encroachment.
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The Toshka land is owned by a Kingdom Holding unit called Kingdom Agricultural Development Co.
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The grand plan behind the agricultural development, known as Toshka, was to turn fertile land into an agricultural hub that could feed Egyptians and export fresh fruits and vegetables to other Middle Eastern countries and Europe.
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Establishment of industrial-development zones, urban expansion and road building are all shrinking agricultural land.
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Arbitrary land laws allow local governments to cheat farmers, by underpaying them for the agricultural plots they buy off them for development.
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