CAIRO, Egypt: The Development Corridor Project needs $ 12 billion to start, said Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, Farouk el-Baz. El-baz denied reports claiming that his project aims to plant a hill of limestone in the Egyptian western desert. He told “Cairo Today” that Development Corridor aims to increase agricultural land by getting back 10 million acres, creating new investment opportunities, and building houses away from the Nile Valley, which will in turn contribute in solving Cairo's over population. The project will create 650.000 million acres that can be used for plantation, especially since there are Nile sediments and underground water in eight places, he said.
