Growing trees and food in the desert while preserving water
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- With the Saudi Green Initiative and the Middle East Green Initiative summit ongoing, the progress of our partnership with Mawarid Holding and Barari is inspiring to follow.
Growing trees and strengthening food security in desert conditions with less water requirement will have significant value for these initiatives.
Planting 10 billion trees in Saudi Arabia and 50 billion trees across the Middle East is equal to restoring 200 million hectares of degraded land and it can offset 2,5% of global CO2 emissions.
Desert Control is a company specialized in climate-smart agri-tech solutions to combat desertification, soil degradation, and water scarcity. Its patented Liquid Natural Clay restores and protects soil, reducing water usage for agriculture, forests, and green landscapes. Liquid Natural Clay (LNC) enables sand and degraded soil to retain water and nutrients. LNC increases crop yields while reducing water and fertilizer consumption by up to 50%.
Deep mulch… like 4” or more… will keep the soil Much Cooler. Which will cause the plant to require less water… enable it to take up nutrients much better, and will (obviously) aid I. Preventing evaporation.
Use grass clippings and toss in some worms… and watch that add many more layers of goodness
there is no grass in the desert from which to make clippings from. a better solution would be to chop and drop and then place a thin layer of sand and rocks on top as a form of reflective mulch. This will hold down the biomass and also create habitat for small animals, while still allowing water to percolate.
@@IvarDaigon rocks are alright, but if you place too much sand on top of the soil near the base of a tree you may end up killing it. Superficial roots need oxygen
Beautiful to see. Once those roots get to full growth they will help secure and nourish the soil
Exactly! 😀
This monoculture design will likely consume a great quantity of scarce, desert water with an insignificant, nutrient deficient yield. The polyculture design created by Geoff Lawton in the Jordan desert only uses water captured and sequestered on site; his design is a beautiful oasis yielding nutrient dense food. Such a stark contrast in design philosophies.
I belive geoff s project in jordan also uses water delivered in tanks, used in house and toilets, and then reused in the gardens. I think there is a video of him saying that they would need a much bigger area to colect enough rainwater to be self suficient...
And, at the beginning of the project geoff also used much less especies, much hardier species, before they had enough mulch, shade and fertility to plant other trees.
There are very many different species involved and the initiatives span across native species for natural ground cover, vegetation, trees, etc. and it aims to focus on the regenerating soil ecosystems as the foundation: ua-cam.com/video/ccGF_htsjKY/v-deo.html
And those talking about mulches and what not... forget it in the UAE desert it just dries up and blows away! Even the humic layer in sclerophyllous woodlands is barely able to sustain enough bacterial or fungal life to break down fast enough! Imagine in the desert. Need pioneer spp, ground cover stuff. Loads of ideas in these comments, but it's a mammoth task. Hats of to this company for giving it a shot. Not the easiest country in the GCC to work with either!
Not really i turned the sand into soil in 10 years in Dubai through mulching and adding cat litter clay bags mixing with it sand at the initial stage of the garden. We grew fruits and vegetables in garden. I lived in a house with a garden.
Oh it is NOT dry it is extremely humid entire summer which is why i had three species of springtails in my soil under the leaves and dry dead kitchen waste.
@@Adnancorner what does your rain gauge read? Water pulls gas through the substrate humidity is okay, but liquid water is required for effectove gas exchange. In a garden you are right, mulch is good. In the desert, it just blows away.
@@browpetj You are not growing in the middle of the desert. you always create a structure wherever you acquire a proerty to grow.. he is not growing in rub al khali desert in the middle of nowhere and high on a dune.
I mean think what you are saying "blows away".
Regarding my garden - I irrigated and mimicked the dry areas of India - Tamil nadu, where it only rains 4 months of the year so i gave the trees in my garden water every 6 months of the year.. I used dry tropical forest species like Albizia, moringa, Ghaf and many others and added fruit trees in the middle of them to create an ecosystem. I remember very clearly i chose at least 70 species of plants - from ground covers to trees and shrubs & vines.
@@Adnancorner Happy to hear about your experience. There is plant based cellulose adhesive developed by China's scientist name Yi Zhijian which is promising. It's transformed sand to soil.
It's used to price 6/7 thousand dollars per hectare in 2017.
I am unable to find the current price though.
Why not plant &grow tall spreading shadows various trees 🌳 suitable for Soil&climate of the regions likes khejari gunda ker jal Rohida etc Rajasthani trees .Use sea water 🌊 LOCal Govt should take Initiative in green ing the regions Automatically people will cooperate to
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i transformed a 200 acre desert to a profitable horticulture project alone.
How long did that take?
Tell us more.
I plan to move to a desert and make a garden that provides all my food, hygiene, construction, craft, and medicinal needs without weeding, watering, fertilizing, or using pesticides, and while I know some methods already, many are rather slow. So I'm researching more options and tips.
Thanks!!
Great Job, greening desert is easier than making colony in Mars
We can green our deserts and then we can green Mars!
Great, looking forward to a 3 to 5 year follow up video.
Plant zucchini, passion fruit and others...to shade the trees and their leaves will nourish the earth(Brazil te assistindo).
Wonderful suggestions and we believe strongly in synergistic relationships of plants and crops, agro-forestry, and agro-ecology.
Great suggestions and we love the agro-forestry and agro-ecology mindset
That's a silly idea, I would plant trees in between that grow faster and much taller that could be used for logging or woodchipping to place around the trees... And underneath that perhaps plant your suggestions..
Thanks you 🌱 for growing trees🌳 for our oxygen🍃 🌱🌿🍃🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳👍
I developed a system a few years ago that can drastically increase cloud cover to reduce high temperatures during summer months & increases rainfall but unfortunately no government agencies in Australia want to know about it. I would love to see somewhere that has a bit of forward thinking like the UAE or anywhere else for that matter try it & prove that we can easily green desert areas with water!
can u share to india gov as we would need all help in our central and western india
Rain dancing has already been invented
@@dailydoseofrandomvideos5482 yes but I’m not entirely convinced IT works!
upload a video
idk you sound like a charlatan to me
Thank you so much for your work! Beautiful and brilliant initiative.
Mulch around the plants. it would help to retain the moisture.
Thanks Zia, yes and the LNC liquid natural clay compound has some of the same effects. That is what we have applied around the trees throughout the root zone here.
@@DesertControl_MEGA finally I figured the C was for clay, LNC now I get it
@@DesertControl_MEGA I can't be sure of course about your specific conditions regarding the soil fertility, but it looked like almost pure sand. Does that water have also some kind of macro- and micronutrients added?
Have you considered combining natural water harvesting/soaking technologies with thick mulch layer for organic matter in the soil (lowering evaporation quite effectively) + that LNC treatement at the same time. What about having nitrogen fixing and very hardy plants mixed with your desired trees - both for soil fertility, mulch and shade? Those methods have proven to be quite successful in harsh arid conditions.
Excellent work
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Very cool . Some ideas. Maybe you csn use some 100% white sand so it will deflect the heat. And dig some holes where water can collect during rain.
for desert environment like in middle east, why don't you apply this method in residential development. every occupied house has its own grey water to irrigate plants in its surrounding garden.
there every house can have larger yard. because its desert, land is in abundance.
you can copy american/canadian residential style but with larger garden for greenery purpose.
start the greenery from new residential and commercial developments. allocate larger yard for every individual building
Thanks Arman, yes it can be used in many settings as you describe
The Chinese have some bonding agent they are using as well, and they are planting licorice because it takes nitrogen from the air and gives it to the soil. Beans do that nitrogen give back as well.
Look into the Moringa tree as it can grow in that climate and is a very nutritious superfood
moringa tastes great - once a year
dont grow moringa near houses and such it’ll destroy the foundation
Excellent initiative wish you loads of success.
Thank you!
Plant trees 🌳 after studying from Sandy regions of Rajasthan such as Khejari, Gunda babool ker Rohida etc.These trees suitable for sandy regions of Rajasthan
Great effort, I hope it works for you.
Very informative.. thank you
At the end hard work will be paved
Really great work 👍
Fantastisk!
God bless you 🙏
Hello Dear. Your job is perfect. It is devote to future
I am nog an naturlist or som e tree lover, but lately I read a lot about the sort of tress being plant. people try to plant the most easy tree that is posible to grow,, and then it looks like green and healty nature... but i read more and more about to plant trees that are good for that specificik region. for example in the netherlands we plant a lot of trees but of all the trees the most are not good. you need the trees that grew here original, and then nature will do the rest.
this project looks great and they are doing more ery nice things like the mangroves in arabia and i hope (for the world) they will also plant the trees that grew here original.
i am from Pakistan, good job man
I have a good land and our dessert North Africa how can I use the system please
Ok next project in the desert, to grow durian trees.
can I use bentonite?
Dünyadaki bütün bitkiler güzel ve değerlidir ama çöl bitkilerine hayranım. 👍
The cost of preservation of water looks like is greater than the cost of abundant desalinated water from the nearby sea/ocean of the gulf region which will allow air flow needed to the roots too!
Amazing
If you mulched the trees they would need less water
what happened to these hydrogel packs i heared about in the 90s? they had water soaked into some kind of white stuff and then it was supposed to safe 90% waterconsumption since it stays wet near the plant and doesnt just run into the ground
hazardous to health and the envionment
clay pretty much does the same thing, without the complex and expensive manufacturing process.
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Unequivocally Israel is the power of desert agriculture and is the first to start developing intensive agriculture in the desert that has yielded amazing results
Plant some Hypochaeris Radicata in the dirt/rock/sand or whatever it is on the ground between your trees, and you'll not only have a ground cover that will prevent erosion, but an edible leaf you can cook like spinach.
And it literally won't let me copy and paste the wikipedia link but some of their info is incorrect anyway, it will grow in sand or gravel with little water, and as it dies and regrows will rot and the rotten plant parts will ultimately decompose into soil making your field of rock and sand no longer a field of rock and sand. And you can eat it the whole time. It's a weird plant that many people consider a weed and several cultures eat as a traditional food. If you search for this online and find some absurd link selling 30 seeds for 5 dollars please do not buy seeds from them, it's like a dandelion and I have thousands of seeds for it as do millions of people around the world. Just warning everyone, because someone actually put it up for sale for that, and Google decided to feature it.
Obviously i have never tried it in the dessert but my first impulse would be Cacoa! It is a bush/tree so it is a permanent crop which is helpful. Its leave build a layer of organic matter and the fruits are extremely desired ressources. Its also farmed by children in previous destroyed rainforests so farming it in the dessert would be oreventing deforestation on a massive scale.
How about to cover the soil around the plants to retain water in it?
Why do they call it liquid. Also how abundant is clay?
You mean, clay + sand = LNC? interesting!
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Why dont reintroduce native plants first best fit to colonize the surface and later turn to food production plants?
Shouldnt this be marked as an AD since it is a norwegian company?
I wish I got paid to reshape the enviornment. I have ideas and I love plants
Save Our Planet
I will be using wood chips but it hasn't arrived yet. Hopefully soon. How do you go about creating LNC?
@JH P Good idea 💡 Thanks for the information
using woodchips encourages deforestation as it increases demand for it which is counter productive
@JH P bruh. where do you think woodchips come from in the first place?
@@ANMA133 you just got rolled multiple times lmao
I am surprised that you are not using the Groasis Waterboxx. It's a bit spendy (for someone like me, but not for a Saudi prince), but it is a truly clever design, delivering maximum efficiency in water consumption. In a place like Spain, there is no need for drip irrigation with the Waterboxx. Perhaps Saudi Arabia projects would still need drip irrigation, but a whole lot less.
Calm down groasis employee
@@FATTYBONGRIPS You have jumped to the false conclusion that I am a Groasis employee. And you probably imagine yourself to be "witty".
The challenge of building a healthy habitat in an arid climate is daunting, fraught with failure.. Products like the Waterboxx could make it easier. Drip irrigation requires maintenance; furtherrnore, water must be pumped. The Waterboxx requires neither. I don't understand why you disdain its use. If there is a similar product which is better designed, more successful, I would be pleased to be informed.
@@zeitgeist5134 I don't think I'm witty I actually just must be genuinely witty if you aren't a groasis employee... you're over here sucking Groasis off lol
Check out Geoff Lawtons 'Greening the dessert too.... & swales :)
Many of the comments are clearly from people that have no idea how to grow plants in the desert.
Are you using rain water from the valleys or using fresh normal water used for drinking?
Using different sources of water and we also find that the LNC treatment increases salinity tolerance / helps to reduce the salinity in the topsoil.
@@DesertControl_MEGA using wadi water is better but wouldn’t make a faster growth
You can look up baydha project tested on a barren desert in KSA
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I DO NOT BELIEVE in lack or scarcity. There's MORE than enough to go around for everybody but there's so much unused land that could be used for those who don't have access to food. Think of the desert of Arizona, US - Patagonia, Argentina - Sahara desert, or the savanna desert. The list just goes on. The key word is ACCESSIBILITY.
Clay + sand + water + droughts = concrete
irrigation+rainfall = evaporation + transpiration + runoff + leaching
Which one of these processes do Farmers really have control over during the growing season? If you have the ability to irrigate your sandy soils and water is cheap and plentiful, then you are fortunate and have some control on the left side of the equation. If you do not have irrigation, you must look at the factors on the right side of the equation to see what can be controlled or minimized to benefit your crop. Evaporation from the soil surface can be reduced with mulch or leaving crop residue on the soil surface. Transpiration is a function of the plant leaf surface area and the weather. Runoff is or should be minimal in sandy textured soils with high percolation rates.
This leaves the leaching of water out of the root zone as the #1 controllable loss of moisture to your crop. Interrupting the downward movement of moisture in your soil by installing a "smart" barrier can greatly reduce the leaching of water and nutrients. SWRT subsurface membranes detain/retain up to 90% of irrigation or rainfall in the root zone for crop use by disrupting the gravitational movement of water in the soil while still allowing excess water to percolate and do not create anaerobic soil conditions.
The soil here changes very quickly. The more tree residue remain in the soil the more earthworms develop grinding the sand into much finer. I had a villa for 17 years and in those 17 years we had compost worm as we never picked up leaves and slowly the sandy yellow saline soil turned into dark brown. I still remember to get that brown color on my skin when i touched the soil.
All this happened because we grew giant trees so sunlight never touched the garden floor.
I noticed that they aren't using bunds to slow water down it does rain.
Ketika lahan tandus di ubah menjadi lahan pertanian
Growing is easy
what about biochar?
plant Opuntia ficus-indica! it consumes less water, and the fruit is expensive!
We have much of the treated water in Kuwait the problem is the high 55 c degrees in the summer I wonder if that would work or at least the other 9 months when it's 45 max
heat isn't really a problem for most plants, it is the sun and wind you need to worry about which causes them to transpire and lose water.. so you need to grow your crops along side some kind of shade tree that has a deep root system and is well suited to the harsh climate.
why don't build a height tech plant factory at desert, outside with solar energy panel, wind energy and inside with many kind of plants, the factory can save water inside. water can carry to that company from sea or from some where have much water. if we plant the plant outside factory, the water will quickly evaporate and thus waste water.
Step 1. Get meat rabbits. Step 2 breed them like crazy. Step 3 use the rabbit poop for your trees.
Seems to me the “ blue agave “ plant does well. Drink more tequila 😂
Funny how canals connected to the sea would have a greater effect and would be cheaper then this proccesed sand.
Good idea but is not sustainable nor is it permaculture viable. Its like selling a product is more important then actually fixing problem that would benefit everyone.
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Grown grass in biside tree...to more water
My plants are drying and drying
UAE is certainly putting alot of cash into this. Good luck to them. Trees will bring the rain eventually. Needs alot of them though... On another point, this guy doesnt look like he has planted a tree in his life ha ha ha. Looks better a touch typing than tree planting! Good effort though. It takes all types to get trees in the ground and office planning and leadership are the steering wheel in front of the driving force of the planters.
This has nothing directly to do with the video. Just a question asking why you are wearing those clothes that don't allow air flow? They look so hot!
🤣🤣good question. Maybe for the camera!
Clearly just the marketing guy
you need to regenerate the soil
Thanks!, Yes that is exactly the point, just as we talk about here: ua-cam.com/video/ccGF_htsjKY/v-deo.html
Whats LNC?
a would like to buy some....
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add carbon /biochar
Sand will grow any thing
It's an interesting concept and certainly worth developing. But it doesn't address the problem of our ever-increasing human population. If there were only 300 million people on the planet, most of our environmental problems would remediate themselves. Development of a robust planetary defense system is equally important. Thousands of small meteorites make it to our planet every day. Fortunately, most of them are small enough to burn up shortly after reaching the atmosphere. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before a big one makes it to the surface (impact) or near the surface (bolide). LNC won't help much when that happens, as the debris will block out the sun for a few years.
the population of the world isn't ever increasing... the birth rate declining in all developed nations to the point where it is below replacement. The only continent where the population is actually growing is Africa and that problem can be solved with education and development just as it has in every other continent.
To sole the problem your father should have pulled out . . .
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Plant some orange trees.
Plant indiAn palm trees
Great initiative but I am not confident. Saudi remains a desert for thousands of years for a reason, it has no water retention. Instead of planting trees that consume water, find ways to retain rainwater first. As it stands, you have flash riverflows for a few times a year due to rain, then no river at all for the majority of the year. Instead of greening the desert, the initiative should be 'watering' the desert. Fix the water table first instead of taking water from it. Unless of course, this is a tree that also waters the desert, in which case, maybe it can work, I don't know. I'd be happy to be proven wrong 10 years in the future.
No it is a man made desert... it is NOT located in rain shadow area... so it can be reversed.
There is a different between a rain shadow like Namibian desert where you wont find even a smallest of desert plants compare the all of the arabia with ghaf trees and what not...
use swales, mulch, polycultures, cover crops, and for goodness sake plant on contour you overfunded suit.
Sabar ...
You're using clay that is most likely strip mined and water that is piped in to grow food where we shouldn't be wasting the resources simply because land is cheap. We already produce enough food, there is just huge breakdowns in the supply chain.
supply chain issues are exactly why more food should be grown locally.
if you invest in your forests, you will end up saving resources in the long term. This isn't only about food, but about repurposing and saving a useless desert
@@TileBitan desert is not useless or empty. Its plays a crucial part i. Geothermal regulation of the planet and provides habitat for plants and animals that can't live anywhere else. This is not solving a problem, its creating one.
This is about cheap land and nothing else.
@@oedhelsetren do you live in a desert? I do, and i can say this. Deserts are infertile, devoid of abundance, dry and hot, nobody wants them, and nobody should.
Of course the land is cheap, but that's just the economic incentive. There will always be one
@@TileBitan spend sometime researching Boones and biodiversity. You're thw problem,not the desert.
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try chines policy to grow tree in deresr
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desert soil comedy show hahahhaha, you can fool some Saudis all of the time
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