Artistic impression down on the farm

A piano stands in the corner of the hall where the management and workers hold meetings at the Sekem farm in the Nile Delta, about an hour’s drive northeast of Cairo.

It is an unusual sight in a country where culture is often seen as a luxury to be enjoyed only by the well-off, and pianos are not found much outside schools, theatres and places of entertainment in the main cities.

But the Sekem Group, Egypt’s foremost producer and exporter of organic food to Europe and the US, is not a typical Egyptian enterprise.