{"id":35245,"date":"2018-10-31T15:59:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35245"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:29:01","slug":"sun-and-sea-water-powers-vegetable-farms-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sun-and-sea-water-powers-vegetable-farms-in-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun and sea water powers vegetable farms in Jordan:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/sun-and-sea-water-powers-vegetable-farms-in-jordan\/article19647529.ece\">Sun and sea water powers vegetable farms in Jordan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jordan , has launched a project to turn its sand dunes into farming land to produce food using sun and sea water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>King Abdullah II and Norway\u2019s Crown Prince Haakon recently mark the official opening of the \u201cSahara Forest Project\u201d near the southern port city of Aqaba.<\/li>\n<li>The director of the project is Joakim Hauge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Facts about Jordon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jordan has a lot of sunlight, it has a lot of desert, it has sea water, it has carbon dioxide.<\/li>\n<li>It is a water poor country with 90 per cent desert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Objectives of the project:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the first stage, the project aims to produce up to 130 tonnes of organic vegetables per year from an area the size of four football pitches.<\/li>\n<li>It will use solar panels to provide power and include outdoor planting space, two saltwater-cooled greenhouses, a water desalination unit and salt ponds for salt production.<\/li>\n<li>It will help in using technology that can be used in a sustainable way to produce agricultural goods in a quite tough climate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project funders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The project, whose funders include Norway and the European Union, is to be expanded from three hectares to around 200 hectares of desert.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun and sea water powers vegetable farms in Jordan: Context: Jordan , has launched a project to turn its sand dunes into farming land to produce food using sun and sea water. Introduction: King Abdullah II and Norway\u2019s Crown Prince Haakon recently mark the official opening of the \u201cSahara Forest Project\u201d near the southern port&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sun-and-sea-water-powers-vegetable-farms-in-jordan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sun and sea water powers vegetable farms in Jordan:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704770072},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}