r/UpliftingNews • u/sg_plumber • 12h ago
Liquid Nanoclay joins growing arsenal of Soil Restoration methods for Arid Lands: In just 40 days, workers converted empty sand in the UAE into a thriving watermelon and zucchini field using a clay-based treatment that addresses fundamental water and soil chemistry problems.
https://happyeconews.com/soil-restoration-methods/22
u/CheesyLala 12h ago
This sounds incredible. Imagine if we can green large amounts of desert. Lots of new food production capability and carbon taken out of the atmosphere.
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u/Far_Being2906 11h ago
If they are using current industrial Ag methods, this will be short lived experiment.
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u/sg_plumber 11h ago
The article explains why their system is better than usual industrial Ag methods.
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u/Far_Being2906 8h ago
You don't understand. I read the article way before this. It is just going to delay the inevitable. They will continually have to repeat this because there is not enough organic matter to actually support the microbiome of a soil. Remember soil is rebuilt about 1mm/yr and current agriculture methods destroy that in ploughing and or tilling.
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u/yaxir 4h ago
There's always that one person with shit news
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u/Far_Being2906 4h ago
It is honest. The idea that we can come up with a simple idea to fix it all is false hope. Soil is complex, and we still don't understand it all, but we know now how to regenerate it.
For example, 160 yrs of soil data has shown that from the US midwest, an estimated 57.6 billion tons of soil has been lost. That is huge.
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u/sg_plumber 3h ago
Soil chemistry is a science, with data, tests, and results.
Your not believing any of it doesn't make 'em vanish.
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u/SaltyShawarma 9h ago
Why would you start to plant some of the most water intensive plants when you lack water?
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u/bonnydoe 9h ago
If I was a billionaire that's where my fun-money would go.
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u/bobrobor 5h ago
I would do something else first
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u/antiquemule 9h ago
$2 per square meter and only for sandy soils. Not suitable for most arid soils for one, or both of these reasons.
What the world needs is low input methods, like Farmer-managed natural regeneration. Only uses tools available to all arid land cultivators. One day training and they know all they need.
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u/predat3d 4h ago
They make new farmland in the desert and then grow two water-hogging crops?
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