Bahrain needs urgent action on farming.Byline: Manama Urgent action is necessary to save Bahrain's agriculture industry from looming looming: see mirage. crisis, experts warned. The country only produces six per cent of its total food needs and the figure could drop further without better cultivation cultivation, tilling or manipulation of the soil, done primarily to eliminate weeds that compete with crops for water and nutrients. Cultivation may be used in crusted soils to increase soil aeration and infiltration of water; it may also be used to move soil to or and farming practices, they said. Bahrain and the other GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). nations must also address growing food security concerns by cutting their dependency on imported goods. Around 11,000 hectares -- or 15.5 per cent -- of the country is estimated to be arable, but only 4,766 hectares have been cultivated cultivated, n in herbal medicine, used to describe plants that are commercially farmed rather than collected from the wild. , said Municipalities and Agriculture Ministry water resources director Dr Mubarak Al Noaimi. The main problems facing the industry are poor cultivation and farming practices, a lack of government subsidies and incentives, small farm holdings and soil salination Soil salination is the accumulation of free salts to such an extent that it leads to degradation of soils and vegetation. Salination is a natural process that results from:
Bahrain's main agricultural products are dates, seasonal vegetables and crops used for animal feed. Demand for rice, wheat and dairy products dairy products dairy npl → produits laitier dairy products dairy npl → Milchprodukte pl, Molkereiprodukte pl was rising throughout the region -- with some states buying 90 per cent of their requirements, AGRA Middle East exhibition manager Goutam Malhotra said.- TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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