Egypt's Sisi to inaugurate land reclamation project by end-2015

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to inaugurate a desert reclamation project by the end of the year aimed at expanding Egypt's farmland by 20 percent, the government said on Monday. Egypt aims to reclaim 1.5 million feddans (630,000 hectares) making the total amount of farmland available 9.5 million feddans (3,990,000 hectares), the government said in a statement. "The project is a launching point for getting out of the narrow (Nile) Valley and," Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said in the stat