final research

Farming and importing crops

Crops are very important in the life; you can live with eating meat but the crops have a lot of vitamins and also have useful elements that are needed. The farming can compete with the imported crops.  But we face many problems in our country with farming because of many reasons like weather, fresh water, soils and costs. There is an argument about farming and importing crops and what is better for the UAE:   farming or importing crops.

Farming in the UAE is very difficult because the farming needs nice weather, fresh water, a lot of money and many workers. As we know, the weather in our country is so hot and dry in the summer and average in the winter. So some plants can't grow with this weather. We can build the glasshouse that is a good solution for the weather but it will cost more than imported crops.  On the other hand, we know the UAE has desert weather so that means there isn't a lot of fresh water and also there is not enough groundwater so they must to desalination of the sea water and also they can get water from drilling deep wells. On other hand , farmland suffers from soil creep and to control that danger the government works to build green belts and tree planting in the middle of the sand However, if they desalinate the sea water they must use a lot of power and a lot of oil so that means that will cost more money. There are many farmers who leave their farms because their lands don’t give them a lot of crops and they spend a lot of money but they don’t get the expected harvest from their land. Also they cannot get back the capital money they invest because the price of the imported crops is cheaper than the local crops. By the way, soils do not have enough elements that help the plant to grow. However, they must have a treatment for soil to be ready for use for farming through using the fertilizer and chemical materials. Farmers have a lack of farm understanding because they are uneducated, so we must provide agronomists for their support and education. The desert areas have a lot of small insects that feed on plants and crops, which leads to the destruction of crops and therefore we should use chemotherapy to get rid of them..

In my opinion, importing crops is better than farming because the farming will cost more than importing crops. Our country tries to depend on farming but that project will fail because the farmers have big losses so they are trying to find any solutions to restore their money by any way. On the other hand, when we import crops we can control what we need and deal with the price of the crops. If you want to depend on yourself in farming you must provide an appropriate environment, such as the right climate and provide the right amount of irrigation and try to find a return on your capital investment.