Desert turned green!
Agriculture together with livestock, fisheries and forestry is a rapidly flourishing potential economic sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE government has attached priority to invest more in the agriculture sector with a view to increasing food production. In the recent days massive agricultural development has put 723738 hectares of barren land under the plough. Greening the country with planting trees is also going on in full swing. Agriculture is being done in green house and in absence of enough water for irrigation hydroponics technique has been adopted to produce vegetables. In fact, UAE has so far achieved a remarkable progress towards modernising its agriculture as reflects in the saying of Late President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan “They used to say agriculture has no future, but with God's blessing and our determination we have succeeded in transforming the desert into a green land.”
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