This is Saudi Arabia measuring a massive 2 million square km, making it the 14th
largest country by landmass! However, 95 percent of the kingdom is a hot dry desert
where you find lots and lots of sand! It is also one of the few countries where you find
not a single permanent river! You are also looking at a country where the average
annual rainfall is below 150 mm all year round! However, if you zoom in on the country,
you will see something totally unexpected; arable land! Saudi Arabia is dotted by a
network of farmlands where agriculture thrives, letting farmers harvest many kinds of
fruits, an abnormality in the hot desert! You will also immediately notice that most of the
farmlands are in circles! The nation has 35,000 square kilometers of arable land, which
is larger than the Netherlands and larger than three times the size of Qatar!
However, in the early sixties, Saudi Arabia only had 400 square kilometers of arable
land! How did the oil-rich kingdom multiply its arable land in so short a period? Join us
in this video as we dive into the ingenious methods Saudi Arabia has used to turn its
desert into a farmland oasis!
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The world should be doing this
spraying water on the surface is not really efficient
Dude, their “farms” put more carbon into the air than they pull, because the water is all desalinated (burning oil). This is the dumbest most egotistical idea.
PS. Most aquifers in Saudi already have a High salinity and causes the soil to be too salty to for agriculture. Anything they tell you about aquifers is historical, not relevant or true today.
PPS. Centre pivot is nothing new. And is not even remotely innovative.
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Amazing 🔝
pretty sure it drains aquifers at alarming rates
will disrupt the planetary ecosystem, nature has set itself the regeneration of flora and fauna. And man is a living example of its destruction, with imaginary explanations
It would be nice to make a video of how the Brazilians have already destroyed two thirds of the Amazon forest, which is beginning to be reflected on all continents in the context of climate change, remember these words, already mentioned several times.
It is wonderful to see permaculture techniques instead of monoculture farming, being used to revive land and make it useful! Yes, desert CAN and is being transformed in Middle East countries. ☺️
The Saudi are so psychoptically removed from reality it sickens most people across the planet. Folr these folks slave labour, torture, murder, repression, exploitation is everyday routine. That's what you get when you mix an iron age tribal culture with wayyyy too much money. Eespecially that sociopath MBS is a total offensive to the civilized sensibilities. It's a state autocrat with the morals of a gangster.
The Line is testament to mental disease, hubris, conceit and delusion. It won't even be 1% finished and is mostly a scam to lurein investers to stave off the eventual collapse and slide into civil war of the Decapacitation Kingdom.
I can't wait for this country to go away – or be replaced by a democratic society.
Btw. If I mysterious disappear in the next months I request from law enforcement that my disappearance be treated as a murder.
This land looks completely fertile, it requires work to get it flowing though.
Smart government will make the country a better place for everyone. Don't waste money on wars and conflicts. Peace breeds prosperity
so they killed all their trees and burned the top soil to make charcoal. soooo i dont feel sad for them, they did it on their own.
In 30-50 years all oil will be gone, also EU will not use any oil from 2035. ANd Arabs will go back on desert to live with sheep's and goats.
More slaves. For work.
The entire region including Israel will cause the river to recede including Euphrates river.
The land of the Arabs will return to being a land of rivers and fields
Install a 500 square kilometer solar farm, run a much of desalination plants, bring a bunch of kudzu feeds from China, let it grow and die bunch of times, once you have that biomass, start with trees that don’t required too much water and keep on going with all kinds of trees
I love when I read comments from regular ass folks who think they know better than professional hydrologist, operation and project managers, and everyone else who are usually part of amazing projects such as this.
Saudi Arabia is known as desert and it’s really nice
There is mount sinai and huge biblical site there just preserve those. Archeology must not be disturbed
Southern Saudi Arabia "the regions of Asir, Al-Baha, Jizan and Taif" enjoy self-sufficiency in water, as rain falls throughout the year and the region is green, and the Asir mountains have more than 70% of the vegetation and forest cover in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
I can have ground water. But where are saudis getting the soil . I thought it’s all sand..
Can’t wait until this falls on its face!
The last hours are near.
It's green Arabia project , i think it's wonderful
Short term solution, bet me!
Like Prophete Mohamed s.w.s said
People who know 😐
Hey Saudi Arabia is turning green hooray
People who knows:💀
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