Among the recommendations in the agriculture section:

cropping patterns can be adjusted to reduce the acreage of high water-consuming crops, such as rie and sugar cane.  For example, the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources' water conservation plan aims to save about 1.5 billion cubic meters of water annually by substituting sugar cane with beets and reducing the area of rice growth from 1.3 million feddans* to 950 thousand feddans.  But financial, technical support and guidance will be needed to persuade farmers of the beneffits of these proposals.

Problem with sugar beets is that they're a winter crop here, while sugar cane can be grown year-round, so it could be a hard sell to the farmers.

* (A feddan is an Egyptian unit of land measurement equal to about 4,200 square meters, or 1.038 acres.  And yes, I had to look it up.)