This is Saudi Arabia measuring a massive 2 million square km, making it the 14th
largest country by landmass! However, 95 percent of the kingdom is a hot dry desert
where you find lots and lots of sand! It is also one of the few countries where you find
not a single permanent river! You are also looking at a country where the average
annual rainfall is below 150 mm all year round! However, if you zoom in on the country,
you will see something totally unexpected; arable land! Saudi Arabia is dotted by a
network of farmlands where agriculture thrives, letting farmers harvest many kinds of
fruits, an abnormality in the hot desert! You will also immediately notice that most of the
farmlands are in circles! The nation has 35,000 square kilometers of arable land, which
is larger than the Netherlands and larger than three times the size of Qatar!
However, in the early sixties, Saudi Arabia only had 400 square kilometers of arable
land! How did the oil-rich kingdom multiply its arable land in so short a period? Join us
in this video as we dive into the ingenious methods Saudi Arabia has used to turn its
desert into a farmland oasis!