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FARMING TECHNOLOGIES OF UAE |
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by Anishka Jha | 15-03-2019 00:02
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The UAE has one of the world’s most comprehensive plans to address food security, but much can be done to improve its resilience and sustainability. The UAE is considered food secure due to its economic and political stability. As a desert country, lacking in water and arable land, the UAE is facing considerable food security challenges of its own. It mainly results from water scarcity,climate change, hot climate, and regional instability. Long-term food security and self-sufficiency are key strategic goals for the UAE government. UAE has a hyper arid climate which propels the government to invest in farming technologies favourable for its climate. Recently, the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) demonstrated agri-solutions and crops to more than 100 local farmers and representatives from agri-businesses. The main purpose of the event was to encourage the local farmers to use proven and tested technologies developed by ICBA and its partners. Like many countries UAE is also tackling food security and climate issues. Food Security Minister of UAE emphasized upon the need to have advance technologies to tackle such issues especially in climate change resilience. Agro-based technologies will improve the method to produce crops. The Ministry has dedicated best practices research center exclusively to doing applied research on crops that grow in this saline environment using salt water. The ICBA centre has a revolutionary role in ensuring that the all the challenges to the agricultural output and the climate is addressed efficiently and no individual remains hungry because of food shortage. Centre for its first two decades focused on species that have been neglected for many years but by default are highly salt-tolerant, climate change resilient, and high in nutrition such as quinoa, pearl millet, and others. UAE has also partnered with Beijing Genomic Institute of China to look at understanding the genomics of the crops so that better crops can be bred by using molecular technologies. Hybrid quinoa or hybrid millets will be possibly grown through these technologies. Farmers in UAE are well recognized for their contribution towards stabilizing the food security as they use advanced technology and grow salt tolerant crops to meet the needs of the growing population. |
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8 Comments
Hello anishka
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report
Regards
Susmita
Posted 25-02-2020 01:18
Hello Anishka
This is a great report on the agricultural technology of the UAE. After reading this report, I can learn about the achievements of UAE agricultural technology in government investment, crop improvement, and academic cooperation. And understand that technological advances bring not only new crops, but also the key to solving global food problems. I look forward to your more relevant reports and thank you for your great report.
Posted 20-03-2019 22:39
Thank you everyone for your valuable feedback. Dear Mentors, thank you for your valuable suggestions too. I will definitely post pictures in my next report.
Posted 18-03-2019 23:09
Hi Anishka,
Thank you for writing this report. I have read other ambassadors that wrote about UAE's efforts in combat climate changes few days ago, and with your report, I could definitely tell UAE is taking a leadership in coming up with new technologies that could help both the environment and the people who are currently living in UAE. It was also great to read that UAE has partnered with Beijing Genomic Institute of China to further improve the farming infrastructure and its farmers. Personally, I feel like the world should look at how UAE is doing and benchmark what could be done in its own countries. Similar to Wonhee Mentor's suggestion, I also would like to ask you to put few photos from next time for better understanding.
Excellent! :)
Louis Mentor
Posted 17-03-2019 23:22
Hello Anishka
I always love reading about the progress being made by UAE as everytime I read the reports from fellow ambassador from UAE, they come up with the new progress being made. I feel glad to know about these things. I do hope that dissemination of resources and technologies occurs throughout the globe.
Keep writing beautiful report.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Green Cheers from Nepal :) :)
Yours,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 17-03-2019 14:13
Hello Anishka!
Thank you for your great report. In particular, I really like the way you address the problem that UAE is facing and then implemented solutions. A few days ago, I read the article written by one of the Tunza eco-generation ambassadors that introduced 'cloud seeding' in UAE as a solution for dry climate and food scarcity. Using technologies and researching on crops that can survive from climate change would be another feasible solutions. Thank you for sharing a great report. It would have been even better if you had attached a related photo with your writing!
Keep up the good work!
Wonhee Mentor
Posted 16-03-2019 16:08
Greetings
Good to know about farmers in UAE and their contributions are adorable.
Thank you so much for report.
Green cheers
Posted 15-03-2019 10:07
Great amount of information
Posted 15-03-2019 04:07