FILE - In this Thursday, May 14, 2015 file photo, a young boy irrigates rice seedlings before they are transferred to a bigger farm, in a village in the Nile Delta town of Behira, 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt. Urban growth has become the chief threat to farmland as Egyptian farmers haphazardly and illegally build new houses to make room for the next generation. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, FIle)
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