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World Service,21 Jan 1997,13 mins

Egypt Gives Graduates Land to Farm

The Farming World

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By giving unemployed graduates farmland in the desert, the government hopes to provide work and stop the flow of people moving to Cairo and Alexandria where prospects are poor.

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