How rice can grow in the desert
The desert in Dubai can now be planted with hybrid rice that was able to grow in salty water. This success thanks to the collaboration with Chinese scientists billionaire Dubai, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. Quoted from the Next Shark Tuesday (5/6/2018), rice-paddy is grown on January 2018 and has been harvested weeks ago. The rice harvest reached 7.5 tons per hectare, double the harvest than the global average of 3 tons per hectare. The two sides agree to promote rice salt water in countries of the Middle East and North Africa to alleviate food shortages in the future. Scientists will also test planting of rice on 100 hectares there this year. Experts will develop the projects after 2020 farmland 83,600 hectares or 10 per cent of the territory of the United Emirates. Mere information, research on saltwater padi started since 1970. The discovery of this new rice species done by a scientist named Chen Risheng in Guangdon, China. Scientists spent 40 years to develop the rice water w...