{"id":328732,"date":"2023-04-27T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=328732"},"modified":"2023-05-03T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:13:26","slug":"saudis-take-up-horticultural-giga-project-in-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudis-take-up-horticultural-giga-project-in-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudis take up horticultural giga-project in desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Saudi Arabia\u2019s Red Sea Global (RSG) is planning a <strong>giga-project in the desert<\/strong>. The project is an investment earmarked by Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and is planning the \u201csingle most challenging horticultural endeavor ever attempted in human history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nursery aims to raise over <strong>25 million plants<\/strong> in the Red Sea Project and the destination AMAALA by 2030. It will also produce over 30 million seedlings, <em>Arab News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think about 25 million plants in the time frame we\u2019re talking about, it\u2019s never been attempted before. It\u2019s like the single most challenging horticultural endeavor ever attempted in human history in the middle of the desert,\u201d according to Grant Shaw, senior nursery director at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redseaglobal.com\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The endeavor aims to reduce the reliance on importing foreign plant species and promoting the growth of native flora. Shaw said: \u201cWith our designers, we\u2019ve looked at what can we use natively and then what can we enhance with some adaptive species.\u201d The company has collected native seeds across the country and transplanted mature trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the species you see in this region will never be seen anywhere else in the world because they can\u2019t grow elsewhere,\u201d Shaw explained. Though the nursery mainly comprises plants native to Saudi Arabia, the giga-project has also been sourcing <strong>desert plant species worldwide<\/strong>, including Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has successfully planted over 12 million trees in the past five years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-328724\">Supplied\/Red Sea Global<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Red Sea Global is planning a horticultural project to raise over 25 million plants by 2030, focusing on desert species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":328724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,103],"tags":[41330,11910,41324,41323,41326,41332,41329,41331,9595,41328,41327,41325],"class_list":{"0":"post-328732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"category-sustainability","9":"tag-amaala-en","10":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","11":"tag-desert-horticulture","12":"tag-garden-in-the-desert","13":"tag-plants-in-the-desert","14":"tag-red-sea-global-en","15":"tag-red-sea-global-nursery","16":"tag-red-sea-project-en","17":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","18":"tag-saudi-arabia-nursery","19":"tag-saudi-horticultural-project","20":"tag-saudi-horticulture"},"wps_subtitle":"Saudi Arabia\u2019s Red Sea Global is planning a horticultural project to raise over 25 million plants by 2030, focusing on desert species.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}