Agriculture - United Arab Emirates
Fatma Al Kalbani, Director of Plant Health and Development Department at the Ministry of Environment and Water, said that Quinoa has recently become one of the leading crops in the region and is now attracting significant international interest as a major contributor to global food security.
The Liwa Date Festival in Liwa city. The festival encourages environmentalism and preserving the date palm to restore the agricultural infrastructure in the region.
A new irrigation system installed in Abu Dhabi farms has started to save about 46 per cent water. Farmers have recently begun using a mineral enriched water fertilizer to make up for the lack of nutrients in soil. A new irrigation system installed in Abu Dhabi farms has started to save about 46 per cent water. Farmers have recently begun using a mineral enriched water fertilizer to make up for the lack of nutrients in soil.
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Total Area: 83,600 sq km
Land Area: 83,600 sq km Water Area: 0 sq km Climate description: desert; cooler in eastern mountains Terrain description: flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east Arable Land Use: 0.61% Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.5% Irrigated Land: 920 sq km Total Renewable Water Resources: 0.15 cu km Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 3.99 cu km/yr Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 739.5 cu m/yr Natural Hazards description: frequent sand and dust storms Environmental Current Issues: lack of natural freshwater resources compensated by desalination plants; desertification; beach pollution from oil spill Total Labor Force: 4.588 million % of Labor Force in Agriculture: 7% Agricultural Products description: dates, vegetables, watermelons; poultry, eggs, dairy products; fish |
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is to name UAE cultivation as a globally important agricultural heritage system, said Jose Graziano da Silva, director general of the UN organisation.
"The efforts to preserve and update knowledge on date palms has created a unique system that combines production and sustainability, safeguards biodiversity and helps to improve the livelihoods of those who till the land,” said Mr da Silva on Sunday at the Fifth International Date Palm Conference. Abu Dhabi has set up a AED100m ($27m) fund to help support local farmers and develop more sustainable farming methods over the next five years.
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