Can A Desert Be Reclaimed For Human Habitation?
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2018
- The Gobi Desert's Sand Warriors: The Gobi desert in central China is becoming increasingly barren, forcing resident farmers and their families into towns, with serious ecological consequences.
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"The whole ecosystem is in danger", states Li Hong Jun, a Gobi resident. Though his family have left, Li refuses to abandon his ancestors' lifestyle. Despite horrific sandstorms and arid soil, Han Meifei is among those seeking to rejuvenate the land. His innovative procedures have developed ways of growing plants without water, preventing the dry desert from spreading, and preserving the seeds of plants close to extinction for a greener future.
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The African Nations have already started with the Sahara Desert. The Great Green Wall on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert is a forest that that was started in 2007 by ,11 African Nations. The Green Wall measures 9 miles wide, and almost 5,000 miles long. In Senegal alone, over 11 million trees have been planted.
@ParangLima They're building a Green Wall at the edge of the Sahara Desert. Most trees do not need watering every day. There's rainfall at the edge of the Sahara.
great effort. we mankind should help each other to overcome challenge given by nature.
hope later there will be more breakthrough either from china part or from africa part.
bravo!
Wow ! Keep at it !
@John Zyp I'm pretty sure they got that whole process figured out already.. after all, it's been in process since 2007 and is successful thus far.
Also, there is rain, and there is vegetation at the edge of the desert.. they plant more among the existing vegetation to thicken the greenery so it becomes more able to withstand whatever wind and sand blows over.
Please search more on google on the latest news on stopping desertification in China. It works beautifully. The size is bigger then reported here. They have planted rice paddy, fruits and etc.
ParangLima czcams.com/video/PGJ7M7sZITA/video.html
@ParangLima yes
@ParangLima not fully solved. just have some breakthrough.
They said u say no body now's how much cost how much area they did
They have planted a total area of Montana of trees
Imagine: all Gobi desert reclaimed, not as a desert with artificial villages, but as a green landscape with forests and horticulture (Permaculture, like Geoff Lawton did near the Dead Sea) . It's possible
I think it will happen, with the help of robots. And yes Geoff Lawton's work is a very inspiring.
I am looking into this right now. Studying this. I want to start a startup in this effort.
I know this comment is now 4 months old, but where would you suggest I should look if I wish to read and know more about Geoff Lawton?
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You will find lots of information about Geoff Lawton right here on CZcams. His mentor was Bill Mollison. Look up Permaculture, and Greening the Desert. Fabulous and inspiring!
Give credit were it is due. These Chinese are doing instead of talking. Congratulations!
ahahah 10 acres
@@johnnyllooddte3415 At 9:56 the announcer states that the "greening" of the Park Kubuchi took half a billion dollars (equivalent), 30 years, and it covers 6 thousand square kilometers. Respects from Mexico!
Chinas dictator destroyed the countryside and caused the climate disaster
The real fix is freedom
@@Batman-to7qc I, too, appreciate freedom but, in the case of climate change, "free" countries like the USA, Canada, and England have, to date, contributed more to AGW, and climate change, than China. China, India, Brazil and other "developing" countries are certainly catching up and China proudces more, on an annual basis than even the USA. In any case, it is a bit too late. The melting of Arctic tundra and sea floor methane clathrates, appears to be unstoppable and unaccounted for, by the IPCC. Like Cronos, we have eaten our children's future.
Free countries are cleaner, safer and healthier
Oppressors like the Chinese Communist Party cause drought, poverty, climate migration, lower life expectancy, desertification and food insecurity
Thank goodness there are people that truly care, that want to make a difference.
Man. I am ready to try that delicious strawberry.....
first, is not NGO
Is support by the government of china, which started the project from year 1980+
王耀赐 Chinese steal all their innovations from other countries . But i do believe they made their own way of helping the desert
Healing Energy do more research, before you comment
Of course, no NGO would have five hundred million dollars for investment 9:44
"steal all their innovations"
do you even know how humanity progresses? it's by not keeping knowledge to ourselves.
And that's really good. Maybe, you know how it's possible to read more about them?
Some dreamers think we can turn Mars into a liveable place, in reality we can't even stabilise Earths deserts. The dynamic Chinese are better at it than most.
If you watched the video you can find out that the Chinese Communist Goverment came and demolished their village where they had been farmers, doing their best to live of the land, and now they have to take other jobs where they get money to buy food instead of caring for the land. Good thing Westerners have started giving the Chinese people technology so they can attempt to rebuild all the forrests the Chinese Communist Goverment have chopped down without replacing the trees!
@@jensjansson1993 My comment referred to so called experts thinking they can terraform Mars (when they can't even repair the Earth). I am aware that the Chinese government frequently relocates people against their wishes. It's a communist thing, Russia, Cuba all did that, and worse. Nonetheless they do achieve things that most western nations just talk about.
@@bobjackson4720 uhh? My country have for over 70 years been trying to get china to stop cutting down all their trees, offering them wisdom and technology on how to harvest forrests in a sustainable way. They most likely are the last suitable people for such a task, even Africa got more wisdom on how to terraform the land. Can you explain on how you think the Chinese are more dynamic then most for such a thing?
@@bobjackson4720 Western nations have achieved everything that China only dreamt about. Landing on the moon, for example.
All modern technologies were invented by the west.
@@bruceli9094 I don't doubt that but the Chinese system for all it's faults is very good at the big projects, maybe like America was fifty years ago.
The technology can help, but the hard part is to have pioneer communities which are willing to endure hardship over generations. If this is not done continuously small piece of land by small piece of land, the desert wins.
yeah, like in Las Vegas. Actually DESALINATION TECHNOLOGY is the only big secret to greening the worlds deserts. Big pipelines full of water from the ocean to the deserts...DONE DEAL.
@@chipwalter4490 ur gov prefer to spent 1 trillions on military complex industry
@@chipwalter4490 watcha gonna do with all that brine? The key to fixing deserts is to improve the soil quality and plant coverage so rain/water can accumulate in the ground
I hope the Saudis are paying attention, they have so much money and have done so little to transform the desert.
Saudis are praying five time one day for 72 cows after death. They are busy with that and no time for the desert.
@@billykwok2414 No need for that insult , you idiotic swine . There are others who pray five times a day who are not like them .
@@billykwok2414 don't talk to these barbaric beheaders.. they only know how to harm others
@@Setetoto React and proof them wrong without reacting you're alienating yourselfs from "khaffirs" as you say which I'm pretty sure is an insult ...
SOKÓŁ Sokolowski it sometimes is but not always. As per proofing otherwise, If you’re this uneducated on a certain topic , it’s a waste of time
just look at the smile on their face, most beautiful smile I've ever seen
Decades ago I met a man in East Helena, Montana who owned a small company that was providing services, applying his technology to reclaiming sandy desert land. His methods included adding a carefully-determined fraction of bentonite clay to the sand (which was of course added in with other soil amendments). Bentonite is well-know for its water absorptive properties, so it "holds on" to water, making the water available to plants over time, instead of letting the water quickly evaporate away like the desert sand does.
He described one project that he did in Saudi Arabia.
Seems to be the same "methodology" used here, "How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change" czcams.com/video/vpTHi7O66pI/video.html
The town's name is Meow Meow..... So cute >.
And the name of 9th cat is september...
i can. i burst into laugh everytime narrator says Meow Meow in a serious tone
I have 90 cats
99 now
Meow meow ......cat faces
And in contrast to the expansion of the desert is the covering of the most fertile lands with buildings and pavement. Man kind will pay dearly for this foolishness.
We need Chinese scientist to go to sahara and make it green again so in Europe we would not have any more too hot air coming from the sahara in summer
Energetic people are good for the environment. Congratulations, you are doing what needs to be done
Hat's off for u guys!!! U people r doing a great job,keep it going n growing 👍
with today's technology and manpower, yes. absolutely.
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uncontrolled goats and sheep are important culprits in desertifaction..
Too many in too small an area for too long of time, sure. But they are valuable fertilizers of the soil. Like anything else, they have to be utilized correctly.
I can help with that, I'll just eat them all 😂
Holistic management is the way to go with cattle
Egypt reclaimed some very dry land to grow potatos. Is close to the Nile though. But is still quite a project. Helmand in Afghanistan was made fertile by hydro engineering projects by western countries, it was unfortunately used to grow opium.
Opium is used in lot of painkillers.
+Hiren Patel and heroin...
Still a crop
your missing the point the fact is that it was used to grow something if you can grow opium you could grow other than drugs the same can be applied else where in all desert
plant the garden
It's always a back and forth battle. But we need to fight on. 15% of land is too much.
Thank you Journeyman for another eye opening video.Congratulations to the efforts in reclaiming the desert here and the Aral sea.
You cut down too many trees and you have no top soil...no topsoil...you have desert!
When they set their collective minds to achieving something there is little that the Chinese cannot do.
As a mathematics teacher, it makes my ears ring when incorrect terminology is used. 1000 kilometers squared is 1000000 square kilometers or in words, one million square kilometers. I am certain that you meant to say 'growing by 1000 square kilometers each year'. There is a difference between what we say and how we write it. For example when we write $5, we say five dollars, not dollars five.
#WorksHardPrayers #WorksKnowledgeUnderstanding #UnderstandingWATERmoney #PrayersGobiDesertTrees #DrillingWATERpumpsUnderstanding #KnowledgePoorRichCommonSense "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - Lao Tzu" .... Thanks on Journey Pictures on story Mr. Li Hong Jun. This great Mr. Han Meifei awesome Project; all People Staff are working hard! From Talkings, Workings, Writes, Cameras, Technologies, Young Peoples have helping #WaterDirtAir #BillionsPeopleFood ..Have a Great Day!
Deserts look like power plants to me. Great for solar and wind power. Solar panels can also provide shade to the ground below and perhaps plants would grow in the cooler, more moist soil under the panels. Wind can of course blow freely without the trees getting in the way. Then with all that power, pumps can be run with excess power to provide some irrigation for crops... Desertification is a massive issue and I am so glad to see the people working hard to solve it in China. The rest of the world can learn a lot from the Chinese in this regard
Awesome! Keep up the great work!
It depends on rainfall. If there is rain there is the possibility of life, without rain, it's too difficult. A small amount of rain can be used to grow trees and the future could be better. Seawater may one day be used for agriculture with desalination, but desalination would need to be without fossil fuels for it to be viable. This is possible at present, but economical.
This is a big scale, it's like "terraforming". How about a big power plant on the coast, giant pumps pump the water inland, some vast salt water aqueduct. The water evaporates and makes more humidity, and also you can harvest the salt and brine products, and have a little industry just from that. That greenhouse complex was pretty huge and fancy, clearly this is important and they're willing to think big. OK, seawater canal goes for miles inland, and some of it is covered, so you have MILES of linear solar desalination plant, and the trickle of water goes to irrigate the area close TO the desalination stuff, presently you have grass and trees going on for miles, a linear forest. Those little plastic micro-irrigation pipes branch out from that, so now the canal and the irrigators are like the veins in a leaf, and the reclamation area gets wider, and tapers off into the plain arid desert.... Seems like it could keep a lot of people busy, and who wouldn't want desert strawberries? Some desert potatoes, I can see how it might work out. Imagine reclaiming millions of square miles of sand and making it back into villages and farms!
Rainfall also depends on vegetation. Forest and vegetation attract rain and also keeps water in the soil, to a certain extent at least.
Wow this is inspirational! Keep the goodness flowing...
Fascinating video. Thank you.
I hope you accomplish your goals and keep up the good work👍
great work
Potatoes and strawberries both do really good in sandy soil. That guy with the lab didn't really invent them as much as plant them there. If they can be grown without irrigation of some sort then he may be onto something but the entire portion of Idaho where potatoes are famously grown is an inland desert/steppe land with a similar climate to this. There is a stigma against potatoes in China as a poor person food and the government has been trying to get people to eat them because they know they have a lot of land that could produce the most food per acre with potatoes but they just really aren't a part of too much of their daily diet or cooking.
That´s quite true. Every bit of this world has some kind of stigma regarding different types of food. Potatoes where never a "Chinese" thing, but slowly its getting there. Same for Yogurt and a few other things.
It´s kind of funny how some things are regarded in different spots.
Americans have a huge "Asian carp" problem, but "traditionally" don´t eat it.
In my country we even import snails! Because we can´t produce enough for internal consumption. Squid or Octopus are expensive due to high demand. On the other hand crawfish (fresh water) is an invading species which traditionally we don´t eat. :-)
In the North of Europe I was charged "peanuts" for some fantastic "squids" because they don´t eat it. It was going to the garbage anyway. Well the second time I bought them, it wasn´t "peanuts" anymore. They start charging seriously. Damn it. LOL :-)
In Nigeria I was offered fruit "RATS" and Monitor Lizard , both are considered a delicacy...
This is a really colorful world. :-)
Cheers
Quit fascinating that strawberries could grow in such harsh conditions. I always thought that it took a delicate environment for them to grow.
True but Gobi is still way dryer and more hostile desert
I wonder how they translate the language of local residents. As a Chinese, even though I’m able to understand some of their accent, I just cannot understand the whole sentence.
Evaporation is one of the main issues, 100% sealed greenhouses would help with that.
Compressed air as a way to store power also condenses water from the air.
An atmospheric condensation tower could use cold coils to pull moisture from the
air and store in cisterns under the greenhouses. Could use windpower and solar thermal
in conjuction with einstein's fridge design for the power.
*Are there people, companies, or organizations that are using the ideas and methods you mentioned? Because it sounds a brilliant idea?*
@@LifeOdysseyMotivation The Einstein fridge is the propane fridge in most RV's, any heat source will make it work and it has no moving parts.
compressed air power storage is done by anyone who uses air tools, though larger scale would require using a cave or dry oil wells perhaps.
the atmospheric condenser idea is for sale online but uses electric power, doing via the einstein fridge cooling method would let it
be off grid and just needs heat. The thermoelectric effect can take heat and make electricity thou as well.
compressed air requires a vacuum which in turn requires a large amount of energy. Still, I suppose I hadn't considered it for energy storage
I wish the world would spend more on projects like this than pumping billions into research on climate change. Money that would be far more beneficial I in the long term. .
3:20 "...artificial village"? All villages are made by man. And are, therefore, artificial.
Yes; but it's a planned one, rather than one that has grown up naturally there.
Use your brain
Can someone tell me the name of the organization mentioned in the video who is growing food and trees in the desert? I tried finding information but failed. Any info is appreciated on who these people are!
What an incredible story!!
Meanwhile in Sri Lanka people are clearing out forest reserves just to build houses
damn!
Sad! But Sri Lanka shud follow Israel, Japan or Singapore as a role model for development. They are hard working and educated people. They shudn't follow mindless and greedy developments adopted by Bangladesh, Pakistan or India.
It turns out that it takes a whole lot of resources to rebuild after a war. I do not blame them for their actions. It is tragic to see a forest get decimated for sure but I am sure that once peace and stability come back, the people will once again turn their attention to protecting their environment
You should do more research for the video: smog and sand storm are two separate issues. Smog comes from pollution while sand storm comes from desert. Sand storm has been largely quenched for most areas of China. Smog is controlled in major cities like Beijing but still rampant in most of northern China.
Who knows what the sign made out of sticks on dune in the last scene mean? Great job, Bravo!!
There is hope, well done to you all from Canada bc
great job.
Good job!
Awesome!
Chinese people are smart. 500 Million for that project ! Probably a very good investment . Very interesting .
Great job
all good efforts. We also have a plentiful supply of water. City sewer outflow is wasted water. We can quite easily clean it to nearly drinking quality and use it as irrigation for dry areas. We can afford the cleaning and piping. The benefits of doing this would be immediate and the future generation will thank us a million times over.
Amazing people.
A water catchment system and some roofs to catch the water can help green houses grow plants.
I watched many series about the greening deserts in China and else where... Some videos say desert is increasing every year, and some videos say greeing the desert is increasing every year by 1000 kilometre
How to figure out who is correct....
without human intervention the deserts would continue to grow. However, in recent decades we've figured out how to green the desert. The rate of greening is increasing, despite an overall increase in desert size
0:36 the subtitles/CC says BUMBACLOT :D XD hahahaa I'm dying...
Bravo!
i hope to Watch this in big sahara in north of africa
The story about Yellow Dragon challenging Red Dragon!
XD
The great Green Wall of China!
Q: Why not just cover the desert with solar panels?
A: Some could be but the population needs homes and food. Every leaf actually is a solar panel. Roots tie down dunes best
8:24 Finally we get to the reforestation part!
They have come up with a carbohydrate polymer that stabilizes the sand and feeds the first forms of soil life to start the soil biodiversity
"Can A Desert Be Reclaimed For Human Habitation?" Ever been to Utah? The San Joaquin Valley of California? Israel? With enough determination humans could probably farm Antarctica if they wanted to. The quality and efficiency of the farms maybe wouldn't be great, but it could be done and has been done in may places.
The examples you showed are huge energy intensive assaults on nature, they are not sustainable and will wither away once the oil is gone. One should try to increase the biodiversity and build up soil with permaculture methods, not use heavy intensive cultivation.
LOL israel?! They have been leaching all the water from the underground aquifers to the point of exhausted dried up barren places. "we can make the desert green again". Yeah by leaching water of the sea of galilea... Not only that, but the fact that the trajectory of the wall runs "conveniently" along the biggest wells just so people from Poland can water their lawns during the summer while discriminating and leaving land barren for those who families have lived there for generations.
@@ABC-ABC1234 well at some point in the past, water was able to accumulate in that region which is why those aquifers exist in the first place. Water in the soil leads to water in the air which leads to increased rainfall. The main thing to restoration is to plant a diverse array of native plants
@@justinokraski3796 I don't think you realize how this works here, they are draining water at a super fast rate!! It's a no gain game, it's depleting faster than it can replenish. And we can already see it happening in the Westbank, places that used to be lush and green are now completely barren, due to overusage of wells. Not only that, but that racist apartheid in government in ISISrael has deliberately set the trajectory of the wall in such a manner that it depletes all water resources for the Palestinians.
The Chinese are smart people
Dj Genius Would I be self-racist to say that I think Asians are smarter than Caucasians in general? :D
Edgars Cirulis because Asia has long history and wars are common throughout history. Resources are scarce and People/Tribes who are dumb are eliminated through wars, and they didn’t pass on their low IQ genes. So yeah, natural selection at its finest.
Good job ......
I admire these Gobi Desert dweller's dry sense of humor.
I think this has a wrong title.. Human habitation of deserts has always been possible.. it doesn't really needed to be greened or fully reclaimed with vegitation, and etc. Afterall humans will only build roads, houses and other buildings and cut most of the trees planted to accomodate developments. A testament that human habitation of desert is possible, is Dubai and most ME nations that build cities on it, among others. Correct me if I'm wrong..🤔
And if the purpose of this is for people to live in it, make it a city and eventually cut trees and there'll be more human developments than trees, then this is not really something to praise about 100% or IN THE LONG RUN. If it is intended to make a man-made forrest and not really exploit it then the whole humanity has something to be really grateful.
On the other hand, kudos for making a nice INITIAL steps..
How deep are the wells in the Kubuqi and Gobi?
Good work, Plant more trees live simple life
e réalisais soudain que la pluie ne tombe pas des cieux ; elle provient du sol. La formation des déserts n'est pas due à l'absence de pluie ; mais plutôt, la pluie cesse de tomber parce que la végétation a disparu (Masanobu Fukuoka) ........ Je pense que planter des arbres feuillus fait tomber la pluie et change le climat.
L’équipe de Lenton et Hamilton (Institut de Zoologie d’Oxford) a montré que tous les arbres, sauf l’eucalyptus et les résineux, font tomber la pluie par l’émission de microbes synthétisant du diméthyl sulfide qui accroît la coalescence des gouttes d’eau des nuages.
At 0:37 you can see a ver beautiful message
I have to hand it to these hardy desert dwellers. Their survival takes true grit. I wouldn't have enough sand.
gotta pay respect to these people, they are really doing something for human being.
I was like crying when I saw this video.
That's because documentaries make everything unnecessarily emotional with their camera shots and music
they chopped down the trees for many generations. Start this greening process not on the leading edge but on the opposite side to reclaim the edge of the desert that is blowing away. Grasses with long roots help to retain water and slow it down and keep it from washing away while farm animals can help to enrich the soil with their waste. Catching rain water from roofs can also be useful.
Is this desert a source that provide dust storm nutrient that support the ecosystem of the ocean food chain such as Plankton and other living organism in other places like rainforest?
I’m impressed,
Embrace the difficulty to achieve mighty success..uplift all who suffering povertywhich is not theircrime.
Beautiful beautiful brothers
Yes!
I have appreciated China's efforts in greening the desert for a long time now but o have a question. How do the shifting sand surpport the trees on top of it? It's not a solid ground. Do strong winds make the trees fall?
sand's surprisingly heavy. Sure, the wind can move some of the sand, but not all of it at once. The roots dig down deep enough that it's holding onto enough sand. Additionally the leaf litter helps stabilize the soil so it will be less likely to blow away
"Bumbaclart you little pussyole" 😂😂😂 just put the english subtitles at 0:35
Rather than rehabitation should consider for forests
America had this problem one, read the dust bowl from the 20s and 30's and we started planting trees, it worked.
Joe Trueblood
- Indeed it worked and now are getting closer and closer to become fire wood!!! :-(
Quite sad we don´t seem to learn the damn lesson once and for all. :-(
www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-03/trees-helped-save-americas-farms-during-dust-bowl-are-now-under-threat
Some 700 years ago a Portuguese King decided to plant trees to hold the sand and control erosion. Those pine forests still exist today and people still profit from it and the soil is still protected. ;-)
Send all compost to the desert from everywhere that you can .
Mixing sand minerals and compost
will eventually create fertile soil to create more plants .
In fact if deserts swapped half of their mineral sand
with fertile soil from other areas in the world
both parties would gain tremendously .
Balance is what is needed between both sides .
Minerals in the sand and fertile soil .
Half each ~ Job done .
As well as improving water supplies massively via Lakes and internal Seas
and filtering salt water through sand and various rock for clean water .
You can't physically import the volumes required, the desert is bigger than many countries and would require billions of tons of compost. Compost deposited on dry sand would simply blow away anyway.
As for filleting sea water- you cannot remove salt by filtering, only through energy hungry desalination. You then have the problem of super salty brine to dispose of, which causes issues if dumped back in the ocean.
Spencer Wilton To simply mix soil with sand
is possible to do it all at once is impossible
but to do it over a long time is possible .
We have as long as this planet shall live .
Mixed in the right quantities is possible .
We could easily bury salt centrally inland
which would disperse the salt
slowly and naturally
which wouldn’t cause a problem .
Finding solutions
is more important
than creating problems .
@@danielchadwick8513 make compost you need water as it has to be wet. Water is what they don't have.
Hong Peng
What is wrong with solar powered
pumps and pipes
to create man / woman made
rivers , lakes .
‘A solution is what solves the problem’ ;
not another problem .
@@danielchadwick8513 If you check out the map of China, you will find out that the northwest part of China has almost no river go through it. That why China is working on transporting water from south to north for decades now. Lack of water and hard to get out for that part of China are two of the reasons why 96% of Chinese are living on 40% of land, mainly at southeast area of China. That's also why China is focusing on infrastructure still now. From one of this year's episodes of The Grand Tour, they said that China is building 6 thousand miles of motorway per year for the past 8 years or so.
Look into Sun City Arizona.
Desert 😍 is my love 😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
11:00 "...due to the temperatures here." Are the temperatures there rather high or low? I have sadly no idea about the Gobi :3
Glupi Medo he says that the drastic change in temperature between day and night in the desert helps increase the fructose content of the fruit, thereby making it sweet.
Yes Los Vegas.
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Is growing grass and letting ruminants eat that a better scalable food production system than growing potatoes and strawberries?
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Is it cataract in his mother's right eye?
Us actually has a lot of desert that would need some tree planting the same way.
You can place plants on the sides of buildings in cities where you can't plant trees. It has the same effect as trees
How does Ole boy sound just like a Chinese Terrence Howard? So cool.
it's not hard or impossible Arab countries are planting crops all the time
if you open google earth you will be able to see the largest desert farm north of Saudi Arabia south-east from the Jordanian border
Careful with salt deposit tho
Arizona?
I will wait for those delicious strawberries.