Hydroponics For The Economical Food Culture Of Middle – East

Middle East countries, especially Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE are using

hydroponics to reduce their high dependability on food imports and grow food

locally on a low budget. The technology of soilless farming allows growers to

keep costs down in arid conditions, as it uses far less water than traditional

growing methods.

Most of the Middle East countries imports 75- 90% of the food they eat, as the

region is highly arid and the climatic conditions throughout the year in the

region is not so supportive for conventional farming. This is a great concern for

the future food security of this fast developing region, where many of the urban

cities are already overcrowded.

Now the high tech agricultural practice

called hydroponics widely in practice, and

according to the statistics the technology is

capable to reduce the region’s food import

needs up to a great extend. It can provide

quality food grown locally for the big mass,

for comparatively lesser costs.

Hydroponics is the science of growing plants in water, with no soil. The

price of hydroponically grown herbs and vegetables, which are locally

grown in the Middle East are lesser than the price of the same in many

European countries. These can be possible only because they doesn’t require a

long way travel to reach their local markets or consumers.

Now there are facilities in UAE with the capacity to produce even 500 to

600 tons of fresh leafy vegetables and herbs in a single day and all

such farms in the country are running without any harmful pesticides.

What makes hydroponic more suit for this particular region of the world

is, the technology is much more water efficient than any other farming

method. There won’t be any water evaporation through soil and no

agricultural runoff as the plants are being grown in closed facilities, in a

controlled environment.

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