{"id":3828,"date":"2019-05-29T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-05-29T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:43:16","slug":"watch-saudi-arabia-turns-vast-desert-into-fertile-green-farmland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/media\/watch-saudi-arabia-turns-vast-desert-into-fertile-green-farmland\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Saudi Arabia Turns Vast Desert Into Fertile Green Farmland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The northern part of Saudi Arabia<\/a> has become a hub for fresh local produce. Al Jouf Province in particular with its vast olive and other fresh fruit farms is defying its desert surroundings. But it always wasn\u2019t this way.<\/p>\n

We recently came across this gem of a time-lapse video that shows how the place transformed from being a barren desert in 1984.<\/h3>\n
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Once little more than desert, this @googleearth<\/a> #timelapse<\/a> shows just how much agriculture has evolved in @AljoufSA<\/a> over the past few decades pic.twitter.com\/l5i0I985N2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SAPRAC (@SapracOrg) May 28, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Up close these farms look something like forming perfect round discs<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

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They draw water from the natural aquifer beneath the desert and use drip irrigation to convert barren land into fertile farmland<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The northern part of Saudi Arabia has become a hub for fresh local produce. Al Jouf Province in particular with its vast olive and other fresh fruit farms is defying its desert surroundings. But it always wasn\u2019t this way. We recently came across this gem of a time-lapse video that shows how the place transformed … ","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,47],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Untitled43242.png?mtime=20190529125616","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_featuredImage\/Untitled43242.png?mtime=20190529125616 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"Watch: Saudi Arabia Turns Vast Desert Into Fertile Green Farmland - Lovin Saudi<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"We recently came across this gem of a time-lapse video that shows how the place transformed from being a barren desert in 1984.\"><link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/media\/videos\/watch-saudi-arabia-turns-vast-desert-into-fertile-green-farmland\"><!-- <link rel=\"amphtml\" href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/media\/videos\/watch-saudi-arabia-turns-vast-desert-into-fertile-green-farmland\/amp\"> --><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch: Saudi Arabia Turns Vast Desert Into Fertile Green Farmland\"><meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\"><meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/media\/videos\/watch-saudi-arabia-turns-vast-desert-into-fertile-green-farmland\"><meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\"><meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/Untitled43242.png?mtime=20190529125616\"><meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1357\"><meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"702\"><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"photo\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"lovinsaudi\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Watch: Saudi Arabia Turns Vast Desert Into Fertile Green Farmland\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\" We recently came across this gem of a time-lapse video that shows how the place transformed from being a barren desert in 1984. \"><meta name=\"twitter:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/media\/videos\/watch-saudi-arabia-turns-vast-desert-into-fertile-green-farmland\"><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/Untitled43242.png?mtime=20190529125616\">"},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"MohammedMirza","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}