Environment and Economy of Kuwait :: Geography

environs and Economy of capital of Kuwait Kuwait is not self-sufficient in promoteing but the country will bein the future. Its production of cereals, vegetables and harvest-festival grown in theoasis of Jahra and scattered smallholdings is not sufficient for thepopulations needs, collectable to limitations of water supply, fertile soil,climate and manpower. Much of its food needs to be imported but governmentinvestment and the work of the Kuwait observational farm have led toimprovements whereby existing resources are more efficiently utilized. Kuwait is a small arid desert land of around 6200 square miles. Thereis virtually no natural source of sassy water. Climatic conditions entailoccasional high winds and dust storms, little or no rainfall, and summertemperatures as high as 120F. Consequently, cultivable land amounts to lessthan 9% of total acreage.1 Soil deficiencies and the zealous heat andsunlight allow continued cultivation only by expensive underground p ipe-fedirrigation or by hydroponics. Ordinary irrigation under these conditionsresults in gradually increasing soil salinity. this phenomenon has been thecause of the estimated 1% annual abate in arable land for the region asa whole. Hence, increase of traditional agriculture is severelyrestricted. Kuwaitis are under no fantasy that self-sufficiency will take lessthan 20 to 30 old age to attain and even then it cannot include such items as skreigh and cereals. For Kuwait cereal production is considered too expensiveand unnecessary. Self-sufficiency in poultry, vegetables and fruit is avisible goal already Kuwait produces 60% of the eggs it needs, 40% of thepoultry meat and 100% of the tomatoes. The next tension is likely to be ondairy farming and animal agribusiness to increase the 25% of the required milksupplies that is produced in the country. The Kuwaitis are actually consciousof the fact that urban growth and the hunting of animals which used to stomachin the desert has meant the virtual extinction of wildlife. Kuwait isimporting from many another(prenominal) countries animals such as cows, chickens and sheep. In view of Kuwaits extremely unpromising natural environment whichwas made even worse after the Persian disconnect War, the key to all its hopesfor self-sufficiency lies in research and experiments. Their experimentalfarm research farmOmariya, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Researchand the Kuwait Fund for the Advancement of Sciences are engaged in a frame of projects concerned with the hybridization of plants, animalbreeding, the increase of yields in desert conditions, the manipulation ofbrackish water and effluent water, irrigation methods, etc.