Agriculture in Saudi Arabia

Agriculture in Saudi Arabia
 It has been greatly improved over the past decades. Although the Saudi deserts form a large part of the area, but there are many areas that represent climate and fertile ground for planting. In this process, the government has been contributed by converting large areas of the desert into farm fields through the implementation of major irrigation projects and the adoption of this mechanism on a large scale, with the development of agriculture in Saudi Arabia, adding that previously arid regions to the inventory of arable land has been based Agriculture in limited regions of the Kingdom most famous Jawf Tabuk, Buraydah and Al-Ahsa and Qatif and Asir and Jazan, Medina and other areas at present focus of agriculture in Saudi Arabia on self-sufficiency, as well as the export of wheat, dates, dairy products, eggs, fish, poultry, fruits, vegetables and flowers to markets all over the world. The state is working in the industry and petroleum and petrochemical industry dramatically, it also encourages Agriculture, The Ministry of Agriculture is responsible primarily for agricultural policies in the country, and that the private sector plays an important role as well. Government provides interest-free loans and long-term.North

Tabuk

Geological structure of the territory consists in the Arabian Shield area emergence in the form of rocks to a series of Hijaz mountains and rocky plateau Arabic, which consists of the alignment of sedimentary layers stand out in the form of indoor and plateaus are rock layers of sand reservoir of water in the leg formation, Tabuk, a leading supplier of water in the region is the region of the areas Agricultural hit area of ​​cultivated area in 1420 about 228,384 Htkaz, focused 70% of them around the city of Tabuk on the road to Medina

 (by Prince Fahd bin Sultan) and through Jordan (King Khalid previously) and leads the wheat crops is also characterized by the city of Tabuk planting roses and export it to local and global markets, as well as peaches and apricots.

Hollow
Jawf and abundant agricultural area water is famous for its cultivation of olive and palm trees and most of its products "sweet" as well as other agricultural products and a number of agricultural projects. Producing region of Jawf, olive oil is one of the best kinds. And it held a special festival olives and be in another olive harvest between December and January, which is the premier event in the region annually.








the South

Sorghum is one of the most important crops, which is famous for its areas of Tehama. The snapshot is taken from one of the farms Jazan

King Fahd dam in Bisha.

Agriculture in the highlands and spread widely in the highland areas Baha
Available in the southern region for staple crops ingredient of fertile land and adequate climate for the cultivation of hundreds of species of trees and ground water and rain and Seoul flowing throughout the year to enable the farmer to

optimize the creation of agricultural environment for different crops throughout the year and the easiest roads and less costs, based on cultivated rainfall and flash floods, groundwater and surface.

Has been set up in those areas, a number of dams in the region of Jazan There Jizan Dam, which is one of the most important agricultural projects and control in the rain and flood water project, and was followed by the establishment of the King Fahd dam in Bisha and Wadi Beach, one of the largest dams in the country. [1] .

Jazan
In Jazan region famous for the cultivation of grains such as corn and millet primarily, but also works on the cultivation of figs, guava, pineapple, banana, papaya, watermelon, squash, green leafy vegetables. The most important agricultural crops, which is


famous for its region is also the mango as it embraces the territory of Jazan farms thirty varieties of mangoes [2] as well as ornamental foll Kadi and diverse plants and aromatic plants. Has recently been working on a coffee plantation, where experience has proved successful in farms and agricultural terraces located in Jazan Mountains, it has been the work of the festival for the province's milk ongoing Bani Malik encouragement for farmers to display their crops. [3]



Asir

In the region of Asir area of ​​cultivated land in the region it was estimated at about 16,238 hectares, or the equivalent of 0.8% of the total area of ​​cultivated land in the Kingdom, as estimated arable land in the region is estimated at 748,643 hectares, representing 2.4% of the arable land area in the UK. Through local production in the region for some selected agricultural products in 1422 crop fruit came in first place in terms of production, which amounted to about 78.7 thousand tons, and harvest vegetables 53.7 thousand tons, followed by the harvest of dates, with an estimated production of about 46.9 thousand tons, came crop feed in fourth place, with an estimated

production of about 39.6 thousand tons, and finally came grain harvest, where production is estimated at 31.9 thousand tons. Also it led the development of agricultural production in the region to increase animal products during the year 1422, where the production of chicken totaled about 47 million chicks, and the number of eggs produced about 65 million eggs through four specialized projects. The number of sheep amounted to about 717.4 thousand head, as honey product volumes amounted to about 22 841 kg through 274 farm.

Baha

Famous courtyard planted pomegranate and pomegranate courtyard known Berman Labida classified as the finest pomegranates
The adoption of the basic area is located on the agriculture, which had been employed by the majority of the population and their active large part of their trade, were some of the local grain types cultivate vegetables and fruits that population it adopted since ancient times such as corn and white wheat, barley, millet, lentils and sesame, which Cano produce him sesame, lentils and corn oil white, pomegranates, which Cano Asamadouna drained shell that form the vacuum barrier of air Kalpstrh day, grapes, Kano Asamadouna drying and they make a raisin which Kanu traded him to the large production of it and the area has the most expensive finest raisins as Kanu also


Iszewvon green almonds and Zalo to today's medical benefits, and Alfrcks and Tranj wild species of apple, apricot, peach, pear pomegranate black, watermelon and banana chest and woven and almonds Bajali Ahamat and nuts, which was limited to production in some private farms and cultivation of vegetables such as carrots, Alaltvae, potatoes, tomatoes and Digr, okra, mallow, and the courtyard of the most important agricultural areas in the Kingdom.

But unfortunately Kingdom decided last year not to definitively Zraahaalghemh because of water scarcity and dependence on imports of wheat producing countries in order to save water,, ???