Saudi Arabia Just SHOCKED American Scientists With This

As you may already know, Saudi Arabia is famous for being the largest sand desert with severe climate change and little to no rain. How has Saudi Arabia been dealing with these excessive limitations? Today we will reveal a miraculous phenomenon that will keep you amazed because it is nothing. As you have seen before, Saudi Arabia's agricultural development has left the world amazed and incredibly

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video to find out all the facts. If you delve into the history of Saudi Arabia, you will see that Saudi Arabia is a nation. In Western Asia, formerly known as the state of Saudi Arabia, it is the second largest Arab nation in Western Asia and the Middle East, encompassing most of the Arabian Peninsula with a land area of ​​approximately 2,150,000 square kilometers.

It is also the fifth largest. country in Asia, but did you know that despite being a very popular country, Saudi Arabia has long faced the problem of desertification? There are forests, grasslands, mountainous regions and deserts in Saudi Arabia that have diverse topography. There are regional temperature variations in the summer that the desert can affect. more than 110 degrees Fahrenheit, while in the north and center of the country it can reach sub-zero temperatures in winter, but recently a miraculous change has occurred and Saudi Arabia has used numerous modern technologies to solve its problem and has converted many of its desert areas into green farmland.

The typical annual rainfall in Saudi Arabia is only four inches. Saudi Arabia is one of the water-scarce countries in the world, although 97% of its population has access to drinking water. 500 cubic meters per person per year is the absolute threshold of water scarcity, only 89.5 cubic meters per year. person are produced annually in Saudi Arabia even though the kingdom has high rates of water access, severe overconsumption and lack of reliable renewable water sources have elevated

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issue to a top priority, the most valuable natural substance in Saudi Saudi, in the opinion of many, is oil. However, water is becoming more valuable due to the water problem in Saudi Arabia.

The oceans and groundwater, which are rapidly depleting, are the two main sources of water. Additionally, 98% of all natural fresh water is found on Earth. In Saudi Arabia, each represents 50% of the water used. How is Saudi Arabia surviving all the water shortages in terms of agriculture over the last three decades? lowest in the world, averaging

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four inches a year large sections of the desert had been converted into agricultural fields today Saudi Arabia ships various products to markets around the world, including wheat, dates, dairy products, eggs, fish , poultry, fruits, vegetables and flowers Previously a mainstay of the Saudi diet, dates are now grown primarily for international humanitarian assistance.

Agricultural policy is primarily the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture, other government organizations include the Grain Silos and Flower Mills Organization, which purchases and stores wheat, builds flower mills and creates livestock feed, and the Agricultural Bank of Saudi Arabia Saab, which distributes subsidies and offers interest-free loans. Additionally, the government funds research projects and provides land distribution and reclamation programs. The private sector has significantly helped the growth of agriculture in the Kingdom. This is great due to government initiatives that provided long-term interest-free loans, technical assistance services. Supportive financial incentives such as free fertilizers and low-cost seeds Duty-free water, fuel, electricity, and equipment and raw materials Imports, except for a short coastal strip in the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, historically agriculture consisted mainly of the cultivation of dates and small-scale vegetable production in dispersed OSIS, local communities received enough food from small plots and any surplus was sold to traveling caravans in the 1970s, significant agricultural growth began, in addition to the construction of rural roads , irrigation networks, storage facilities and export facilities, the government also initiated a comprehensive program to support agricultural research and training institutions as a result of the production of all commodities.

Food has increased dramatically Meat, milk and eggs are

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some of the commodities in which Saudi Arabia is currently completely self-sufficient Of course, Saudi Arabia's agricultural lands depend on water, a large supply of water is required to achieve the tremendous development of the agricultural sector, were successfully provided by in the kingdom through the implementation of a multifaceted program a network of dams has been constructed to capture and harness valuable periodic floods through deep wells huge deposits of Underground water desalination facilities have been built to create fresh ocean water for use in cities and industry have freed up other sources for agriculture;

In addition, infrastructure has been created to manage industrial and urban runoff for agricultural irrigation. Large swaths of the desert had been converted to productive farmland due to all these efforts, in 1976 there were less than 400,000 acres of land dedicated to agriculture in the 21st century there were millions of acres. What is surprising is that although most of Saudi Arabia's terrain is covered by desert, a surprisingly large number of indigenous plant species are able to withstand the current harsh climate under the umbrella of Saudi Arabia. Green initiative initiatives are underway to preserve and even increase the amount of vegetation throughout the kingdom, from the Vistas Desert in the north to the southern region of Acer.

The kingdom is home to abundant vegetation that includes more than 2,000 species of wild plants belonging to 142 families according to the Saudi National Center for Wildlife, however, around 600 of these species are classified as endangered and 21 are already endangered. considered extinct. The SGI recently announced the largest deforestation project the country has ever seen, with the goal of planting 450 million trees in the coming years and currently around 10 million trees have already been planted in the Kingdom's 13 regions, Forests are not the first ecosystem that comes to mind when one thinks of Saudi Arabia; However, the kingdom is home to around 2.7 million hectares of forests, mainly planting 450 million trees on the surface of the inaccessible mountains of APA and Asa, in the southwest, may seem ambitious, let alone the planned greening of the desert, especially in light of the rapid urbanization of the Kingdom, but in reality the Saudi government has set specific SGI objectives to harmoniously integrate green areas. in urban growth, including green zones and a forest station within the boundaries of the Desert Cities of the Kingdom to counteract the potential damage of urban expansion, the unmanaged surfaces of these cities will be green, which will not only help curb the global warming but will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions and improve the air.

Quality opens up possibilities for more active lifestyles and sustainably beautifies cities, meanwhile, in more rural areas. Green initiatives must deal with increasing desertification, scarce water supplies and record high temperatures, all of which are seen as the result of human-induced climate change. The SGI roadmap aims to safeguard the Kingdom's distinctive biodiversity, halt and reverse desertification and land degradation, and maintain the country's limited water resources, where rainfall is insufficient and groundwater is depleted. Currently, 15 sites in Saudi Arabia are protected due to their biodiversity, 12 on land and three at sea. According to the National Wildlife Center, this number would rise to 75, 62 on land and 13 in coastal and aquatic regions.

About six percent of the Kingdom's total area is covered by the King Salman World Nature Reserve in northern Saudi Arabia, around 300 different species. Animal species live there along with rare archaeological heritage sites, some of which date back to 8000 BC. C. It also contains mountainous terrain, vast plains and high plateaus. With the help of volunteers and in collaboration with the modern reserve management, 100,000 seedlings were recently planted as part of an initiative by the reserve authority and its partners to support sgi objectives according to a ksrnr spokesperson Saudi Arabia is dedicated to increase the vegetation cover as we have already achieved by planting six hundred thousand plants and carrying out many seed sowing campaigns to increase the vegetation in the reserve.

Perennial trees and shrubs restore ecosystems damaged by the desert. These plants are endemic to desert habitats and have evolved to withstand harsh conditions such as drought and high temperatures and do not need much water for irrigation. The primary nursery installation. It is just one of many projects that make up the reserve's strategic goal of creating a water seat program; however, it remains a major obstacle to conservation efforts and green initiatives in the Kingdom. The inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula developed freshwater wells over the years to sustain life. and surviving storms after the economic boom the kingdom experienced in the 1970s.

The Saudis gradually adopted modern agricultural techniques and began to progressively utilize groundwater resources. Saudi Arabia built seawater desalination plants in its eastern and western coastal regions to sustain inland cities. The country lacks rivers and natural resources. lakes and receives very little annual rainfall to replenish the sources; However, there is a growing need for fresh water and natural aquifers are drying up quickly, so the Saudi government is looking for ways to protect and use its water resources more effectively to continue meeting the demands of a developing world. economy while maintaining well-watered green areas King Abdullah University of Science and Technology's Desert Agriculture Center María Nava, scientific advisor at Green Arabia, told Arab News that the SGI strategic team will likely use treated wastewater for irrigation newly planted vegetation and added that another The objective is to reduce the loss of rain to the sea through sand infiltration by introducing and improving water harvesting in the kingdom and remediating soil for water retention where appropriate necessary, according to Nava.

Plants growing in urban regions generally require much more water and canopy cover to provide shade than those growing in mountainous wadi and desert climates. She went on to say that this vegetation needs more water than barren trees that are resistant to falling and have fewer leaves. The nation's traditional diet has been changed by changes in agriculture that now provide a variety of local produce. Foods that were unthinkable just a few generations ago Dates remain an important complementary food in Saudi Arabia, but they are no longer the essential staple food: they were once a large part of the 450 different types of dates produced each year, estimated at around half a million tons.

Used for international humanitarian assistance Tens of thousands of tons of dates are donated annually to help alleviate famine and food shortages primarily through the World Food Program WFP of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. factory in alhasa is completely dedicated to producing dates for abroad FAO Assistance WFP food assistance provided by Saudi Arabia has directly benefited many nations and the kingdom is the second largest donor to the initiative after the United States. The numerous initiatives of the government, such as offering soft loans with low interest rates and technical and support services. Low-cost water, fuel and electricity, as well as duty-free equipment and raw materials, have played an important role in the development of the agricultural sector in Saudi Arabia over the past few years.

Imports have helped the agricultural sector. Tax exemptions are provided for up to 10 years. to foreign partners of joint ventures of Saudi individuals or companies and investment rules have provided additional incentives since April 2000. The Ministry of Agriculture is the main body responsible for carrying out agricultural policy. Helps farmers with research and extension work. The bankSaab agricultural, which distributes assistance and provides interest-free loans, is another assistance organization to build flower mills, purchase and store wheat, and create feed to support the expansion of agriculture throughout the country. The grain silos and flower mills organization was founded in 1972. Saudi Arabia has committed significant financial resources to improve roads connecting producing regions to consumer markets to promote private investment in the agricultural sector.

Additionally, the land reclamation and distribution program launched in 1968 seeks to distribute fallow land for free, usually in small plots to expand the area. under cultivation and promote agricultural and livestock production within two to five years the beneficiaries must cultivate at least 25 percent of the total land area when the farmer meets he is given full ownership of the land with a focus on diversification and increasing efficiency the government continues to support new farmers as they execute capital-intensive projects under development plans. The government also funds and supports research initiatives to create new food crops to increase yields and plant strains with greater resistance to pests to increase agricultural productivity at agricultural research centers located in Saudi Arabia's universities and universities. programs are carried out in collaboration between local farmers and

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it was a remarkable achievement for a nation that must import 90% of its fresh food the easy editing of clay and water had transformed the harsh and desolate Arabian desert into a lush orchard parts of Egypt Mile Delta took advantage of its prosperity in the 1980s despite being close to the desert.

It had long been a reliable place to farm due to its reputation for fertility. Because of their productivity, the ancient Egyptians shifted their focus from subsistence farming to creating a strong civilization that gave rise to cultural achievements that are still celebrated thousands of years later; However, despite having sustained communities in the area for millennia, fertility disappeared in just a few years, the Nile would spread to the Egyptian delta plains in late summer each year before declining again when researchers they investigated. What had happened to the fertility of the land? They discovered that the flood waters had brought minerals, nutrients and, most importantly, clay particles from the East African drainage basin that supplied the Nile and spread them across the Delta lands.

The resilience and fertility of the soil were both. As a result of the clay being rewound to 10 years ago, in the 1960s, the Aswan Dam was being built across the Nile in southern Egypt, built to produce hydroelectricity and control floods, so agriculture could become more manageable and predictable. This amazing structure measures 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) wide, but it also stopped the downstream flow of all that beneficial material. Without this annual recharge, the fertility of the estuary's soils would have been depleted after 10 years. The problem was identified by soil

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and engineers and they also had the beginnings of a solution. they retain moisture or support plant growth the appropriate amounts of clay present can significantly alter all of that according to Desert control using nanoclay will transform barren desert territory from sand to hope.

Farmers have been using clay to improve soils for thousands of years, so it's nothing new; However, it has traditionally been very laborious and destructive to underground ecosystems to work with thick, heavy clay. In the soil the environmental cost of plowing and turning soil also results from sequestered carbon being exposed to oxygen and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, plus cultivation alters the incredibly intricate soil biome, as Saran Saudi said, a soil scientist at the University of Edinburgh. he says: did you know that Saudi Arabia is looking for something that could be more valuable than oil?

It has used buried water supplies for the past 24 years to grow wheat and other crops in the Syrian desert. Images from three different Landsat satellites managed by NASA and the US Geological Survey data are shown in this time series of data. Green desert crops were irrigated with partially trapped water during the last ice age. This fossil water flooded aquifers that are now deeply buried under the shifting sands of the desert, in addition to the rainwater that fell. For several hundred thousand years, by drilling into the desert soil, Saudi Arabia can access these underground rivers and lakes by immediately irrigating crops for the sprinkler system.

The center pivot irrigation method is what it is called. Water is a non-renewable resource in this region due to rainfall. Currently there are only a few centimeters about an inch per year. Hydrologists predict that it will only be profitable to pump water for about 50 years, although no one knows how much water is beneath arid areas. Agricultural areas are approximately one kilometer 62 miles across. Four Landsat images, the shortwave near-infrared and green portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, bands 7, 4 and 2 of Landsat 4 and 5 TM and the Landsat 7 ETM Plus sensors, were used to generate the images. Healthy foliage appears bright green using this set of wavelengths, while dry foliage appears bright green.

Vegetation appears orange. Urban regions such as the town of Tabajal at the top of each image are purple and arid soil is dark pink. Microirrigation uses small amounts of water near the plants. Sprinkler systems that use nozzles to spray water and gravity flooding systems. the field or using furrows to channel water are examples of irrigation technologies. Farmers can also prevent overwatering by using techniques such as irrigation timing to help with optimizing irrigation scheduling. Farmers can also use precision agriculture technologies such as soil moisture sensors, decision support tools on computers or smartphones, and remote control of irrigation equipment to increase farm profitability Farmers Implement and use effective irrigation systems that increase crop yields while reducing input costs We did not find much evidence that water conservation was a factor in technology adoption, but increasing profits and reducing risks are two factors driving adoption of irrigation technology by farmers Small farm size High Capital expenditure and lack of knowledge about technologies are barriers to adoption of more efficient technologies Lack of connectivity, such as limited access to broadband, can be a barrier to precision agriculture tools, especially in rural regions, since its debut in 1982 until 1993 Landsat 4 has produced scientific data NASA launched Landsat 5 in 1984 and operated for an unprecedented 28 years, bringing data in 2011 which was probably its last transmission.

Landsat 7 was launched in 1999 and is still operational. Our knowledge of forest health, storm damage, agricultural trends, urban development, and many other changes underway on our land has improved thanks to data from these and other Landsat satellites. Landsat is managed jointly by NASA and the US Department of the Interior through the US Geological Survey (USGS), which also maintains a 40-year archive of publicly accessible Landsat images online that talks about how agriculture is the gold mine in the Saudi Arabian desert. One third of the world's land surface is made up of deserts characterized by little or no precipitation, poor and sandy soil.

Extremely high temperatures. Scorching winds limit water harvesting potential and almost total dependence on groundwater that is often non-renewable. However, millions of people depend on deserts for their lives, but desert food webs and agrobiodiversity are at risk, so ikata is needed to systematically and sustainably change desert agriculture. helps design, promote and scale up integrated family farming systems in the desert idsat, which combines traditional agricultural practices and nature-based solutions with affordable and useful technologies, according to Dr. Jacques tired, deputy director of research at acada, many technologies Novel technologies used in desert environments as net houses. Hydroponic and drip irrigation systems have increased crop production while reducing water and energy use.

He continued that the effect is much greater than any single intervention by integrating these technologies with local knowledge and including stakeholders from the public sector, the private sector, the value chain and the world's food farmers themselves, including Half of the livestock are produced in dry areas. Of the 2.7 billion people who live in drylands, it is estimated that around 40 million live in deserts that typically receive less than 100 millimeters of rain per year in many countries. In these regions, desert agriculture is the only source of food production and employment in agri-food systems; However, several variables that when combined create a perfect storm pose a serious threat to the viability of delicate agriculture in the desert, the prospects for family farmers living there are a bleak response to several factors, including climate change, demographic pressures, inadequate land management techniques, extreme temperatures, low soil fertility, limited availability of organic matter, water scarcity and salinity, wind erosion, high rates of evaporation and isolation of energy markets and sources, but to despite these threats.

Decades of technological research and development. have meant that desert agriculture is no longer limited to isolated patches like the ozes and has made great strides, except for a few technologies and crop types, the amount of water that farmers apply to an area with more efficient technology remains constant according to Gao's survey analysis. data on farms that switched to more efficient irrigation systems. An example of this is the transition to micro-irrigation in orchards and vineyards, where less water was applied per ACO, as the efficient technology gives farmers more freedom to increase irrigated land or switch to crops that require more water. can increase water use.

The request for GAO to conduct this investigation specified a policy goal of reducing the impact of irrigated agriculture in areas of the United States experiencing water scarcity with that goal in mind. The GAO listed several options that federal policymakers could consider. Number one is to encourage the use of irrigation techniques and equipment that are more effective, such as irrigation scheduling. Number two encourages the use of precision farming tools, such as weather monitors and soil moisture sensors. In many places, agriculture has expanded into marginal and degraded desert lands previously considered unsuitable for food. Production Advancement in desert agriculture can largely be attributed to an efficient portfolio of protected agricultural practices and technologies created by research institutions such as Acada, part of CGIR, the world's largest agricultural research network, and motivated by vested interests. private sector commercial, desalination technology, renewable energy, especially solar. water-saving technology Greenhouse systems and alternative food sectors have made it possible to produce food even on arid soils and in extreme circumstances, in addition to the willingness of many nations, states and governments to develop supportive policies that encourage agriculture in the desert to reduce its dependence on food imports. and promote value-added export goods, such as organic products, which contributed to the growth of agriculture in the desert, including the production of horticulture, date palms, irrigated forage grasslands.

However, rehabilitation protected agriculture, livestock and fishing, due to the absence of rain, raising livestock and growing trees or crops in the desert is only possible if water is pumped from the aquifers for irrigation, which which makes this the most important factor in desert farming and by far the most important task. In some places, the only accessible water is non-renewable or too salty to apply directly to crops. AnyExpansion of agriculture in the desert must include full, long-term control of groundwater. What do you think about this change in Saudi Arabia? Let us know your comments in the comment box.

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