New Chinese technology is expected to convert part of a desert in the Middle East into arable land, which will also serve countries along the Belt and Road route.
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Signed A Cooperation Agreement
July 3 , the team of Chongqing Jiaotong University selected a desert in Abu Dhabi, one of UAE seven emirates, after it signed a cooperation agreement with local company Mawarid .The technology, which called "Desert Soilization" by the researchers, mixes sand with a special solution obtained from plant extracts.
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Naturally Degraded
The National reported on July 4, the team will be given 10 square kilometers of desert to cultivate desert grass, vegetables and shrubbery, where 85 percent of the land is considered "Naturally Degraded" by the government.
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Before the Abu Dhabi program, the team had successfully set up five experimental sites in China with a total area of 666.7 hectares.
Cultivated Plants
Chongqing Morning Post reported, in one of the experimental sites in Ulan Buh Desert in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the research team successfully cultivated more than 70 plants, including wheat, corn and sunflowers.The new technology can be applied to deserts in every part of the world.
Potential Cooperation
Countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Australia have contacted the team for potential cooperation. With a desert climate, the UAE's annual precipitation is below 100 millimeters, data on climatestotravel.com shows. The country's average summer temperature is 45 C.
Abu Dhabi is an opportunity to see if the technology can be applied in one of the most extreme climates on Earth, The National reported.
The technology can not only assist the UAE "but also provide a solution to the desertification issue, the "Cancer of the Earth," said Li Tian'an, Party chief of Chongqing Jiaotong University, at a press conference in Abu Dhabi on July 3.
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