How Saudi Arabia Is Turning It's Desert Into Green Forest

Saudi Arabia measures a massive 2million square km, making it the 14th largest. country by landmass. 95 percent of the kingdom is a hotdry desert where you. find lots and lots of sand! It is also one of the few countries whereyou. find not a single permanent river! You are also looking at a country where theaverage. 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 anetwork. of farmlands where agriculture thrives, an abnormality in the. hot desert! You will also immediately notice that mostof the farmlands are in circles! The. nation has 35,000 square kilometers ofarable land, which is larger than the Netherlands and largerthan. three times the size of Qatar! However, in the early sixties, Saudi Arabiaonly had 400. square km of arableLand! How did the oil-rich kingdom multiply itsarableLand in so. short a period? Join usin this video as we dive into the ingenious methods Saudi. Arabia has used to turn itsdesert into a farmland oasis! The technology is center pivot irrigation, and it has made a lot of difference to the country's water supplies. It involves using a mechanized irrigation system that can help to irrigate crops bymaintaining a circular pattern around a central pivot. By using the radial pipe system. of centerpivot irrigation, the water travels along astraight line down the field. This helps to ensure the uniformity of thewater being applied to the crops! Center pivot irrigation systems can coveras much as 130 acres in a straight system andnearly 155 acres inA swing-arm system, depending on the length of pipe attached. This makes the system for large-scale agriculture more suitable. The main components in a center pivot irrigation system include the control panel, which allows the farmers to operate the machinery. There are numerous types of control panels available for basic irrigation, including dry and wet running and running dry and running wet running dry. It is the brain of the irrigation setup, which can start and stop the machine, as well as change modes of operation, including changing direction and direction of the water entering the machine. The system is currently available for farmers currently picking up and running up the basic irrigation setup for their crops. It can also be used to pick up and run dry running dry, running dry running wet, running wet and running the water into the ground from the center pivot. This is the only way to get the most from the water that is pumped out of the aquifers in Saudi Arabia. While water is scarce on the surface, SaudiArabia sits on reservoirs of water, similar to how the kingdom sits. abovemassive amounts of crude oil. Mostof the water has gone to agriculture, whereLarge-scale irrigation has made planting andharvesting. possible! However,. there is one problem with pumpingwater from below the ground. Aquifers canrun out. of water,. especially when it supports large- scale irrigation like Saudi Arabia hasbeen doing. To conserve. its water, Saudi Saudi Arabia importeda technology, and they have used a system that is calledCenter pivot irrigation. This system can cover a smaller area compared to the area near the pivot point, which revolves around the centerpoint of the whole mechanism. The major part is a lengthyradial pipe that is supported by sprinkling towers. The radial pipe itself consists of equallyspaced nozzles to supply water to the surrounding crops. This. explains why thefarmlands shown at the beginning of this video are circular. The water isuniformly released. from the nozzle to offer nutrition to the crop. This allows the farmer to plant and harvest many kinds of fruits and vegetables. The center pivot system can be used in a number of different ways, including a swingarm system and a straight irrigation setup. The control panel contains the location of another component that allows the Farmer to control the machinery that allows him to harvest the crops from the central pivot point. It also allows the Farmers to pick and run wet and dry runningdry running wet. It was invented by an innovative Nebraska farmer namedFrank Zybach in 1948, whichhe patented in 1952. It has been used in the U.S. since the 1950s and has become a worldwide success story. It allows farmers to grow and harvest a variety of crops and produce millions of pounds of food. This video is part of a series of books. The book, "The Center Pivot Irrigation: The Story of the Center P pivot irrigation in the Middle East and North Africa, by Frank Zybach. The Story Behind The Center P pivoting System.