Growing trees and food in the desert while preserving water

plant Opuntia ficus-indica! it consumes less water, and the fruit is expensive!

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

God bless you 🙏

My plants are drying and drying

How about to cover the soil around the plants to retain water in it?

That LNC or Liquid NANO Clay is not natural, science taking the place of God yet again by the Reptilian Governments. notice the word NANO again, same as the nano tech inside the Jab. They can shove that shit up there arse

Many of the comments are clearly from people that have no idea how to grow plants in the desert.

Really great work 👍

Dünyadaki bütün bitkiler güzel ve değerlidir ama çöl bitkilerine hayranım. 👍

Clay + sand + water + droughts = concrete

Thanks you 🌱 for growing trees🌳 for our oxygen🍃 🌱🌿🍃🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳👍

Saludos desde Ecuador, gracias por compartir, excelente trabajo, ya nos gustara que lo hagan en mi pais. Bendiciones.

can I use bentonite?

use swales, mulch, polycultures, cover crops, and for goodness sake plant on contour you overfunded suit.

Why do they call it liquid. Also how abundant is clay?

At the end hard work will be paved

as usual a man trying to fight against nature and not following the natures view.


No mulch, no nothing, no pioneer trees... and with drip irrigation... that kills the whole project once the water stops...what a wastage of resources and money. You want to grow food in desert, Try learning how nature works in mimicking the forest.

Geoff Lawton permaculture in Jordan project where even mushrooms came in the soil he build over the period of 10 years.

complete waste of money

you need to regenerate the soil

If you mulched the trees they would need less water

Big Bullshit

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.

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.

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 noticed that they aren't using bunds to slow water down it does rain.

Excellent work

Amazing

what about biochar?

Krou wing

Beautiful to see. Once those roots get to full growth they will help secure and nourish the soil

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.

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.

Thank you so much for your work! Beautiful and brilliant initiative.

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.

Shouldnt this be marked as an AD since it is a norwegian company?

add carbon /biochar

You mean, clay + sand = LNC? interesting!

Very informative.. thank you

desert soil comedy show hahahhaha, you can fool some Saudis all of the time

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!

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.

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.

Check out Geoff Lawtons 'Greening the dessert too.... & swales :)

Step 1. Get meat rabbits. Step 2 breed them like crazy. Step 3 use the rabbit poop for your trees.

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.

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

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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.