These flares caused the desert land to turn into a great, beautiful fertile landscape.

It was a new approach for the disposal of public desert land, as the federal government decided this task was too large for individual settlers.

It defines desert land as the land two kilometers outside the border of the city.

The high evaporation rates on the dunes qualify the area as desert land still, even though precipitation exceeds.

The initial phase of the project resulted in 27,000 feddans of barren desert land was converted to fertile land.