types of plants can be planted to combat desertification
ما انواع النباتات التي يمكن زراعتهل لمكافحة ضاهرة التصحر في وسط وجنوب العراق؟
Fast growing trees having xerophytic characters are always preferred for combating desertification ...
Fast growing trees having xerophytic characters are always preferred for combating desertification ...
Iraq is fighting desertification with planting thousands of trees
By Chillymanjaro
One Iraqi province is using trees to fight against worsening desertification. Karbala, 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of Baghdad, is the location of a six-year-old project, a "green belt", or a 27-kilometre crescent lined with thousands of young trees in orderly patterns, irrigated by dozens of wells.
The project has involved the planting of 62,000 olive trees, 20,500 palm trees, 37,000 eucalyptus trees, and 4,200 tamarind trees, all of which were chosen for their root strength as well as for the food some eventually produce. Current width of green belt is 100 m (330 feet).
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https://watchers.news/2012/06/14/iraq-is-fighting-desertification-with-planting-thousands-of-trees/
10 top ways Israel fights desertification
Israel has gained a worldwide reputation for its ability to turn barren desert into useful and arable land. ISRAEL21c takes a look at the country’s top 10 eco-strategies.
By Karin Kloosterman
With desert covering a large part of its surface, Israel has had to quickly develop solutions for its lack of arable land and potable water. Israeli research, innovation, achievements and education on this topic now span the globe in tackling problems common to all desert dwellers.
“We’ve done a lot of research on ecosystem response to drought because we have this problem on our doorstep,” says Prof. Pedro Berliner, director of Israel’s foremost research center for desert research, the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev Desert.
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https://www.israel21c.org/top-10-ways-israel-fights-desertification/
@Al-Sherrawi
The reference you have provided is really interesting.
In our country, that is, in India we have a plant called "Neem". This could probably be one such candidate for this purpose.
Dr. Ali,
please see here: https://desertification.wordpress.com/anti-desertification-plants/
Cultivation of species with superficial and deep roots with low water requirement, such as calligonum or haloxylon
I agree with Anoop Kumar Srivastava as well as The trees planted to resist desertification and fix sand dunes in Baiji area in central Iraq is a tree A. Farnesiana through the service sand dunes in Baiji.
regards.
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