About Qatarat
Qatarat
The Story
Behind Qatarat®
qatarat® is a product introduced to you by AlRowad Industrial Complex aiming to help cope with the growing water crisis, land reclamation, spread green areas around Egypt, and increase nutrition supply. With the continuous incline in population, and the new projects aiming at reclamation of the deserts, it’s now the time to apply a technology that’s well adapted to the scarcity of water and provides smarter and cheaper solutions for nutrition, and designed to survive harsh climates.
Qatarat
The problem of Water scarcity and desertification
- Irrigation is simply the artificial supply of water to crops. In poor countries this is done, for example, by carrying buckets with water from a river or ditch to the crops. In western countries people use mainly drip irrigation, surface irrigation or spraying on a large scale.
- In poor countries, the irrigation systems that we use are not affordable for the bigger part of the society. The irrigation systems aren’t only expensive to build, but consume a lot of energy and water too. For people with a small budget who want to grow fruit trees and/or vegetables
- the world’s water situation expecting water supply of 2.9 billion people in 48 countries to fall short of needs in as little as 10 years. In most of those countries over 80% of the water is used for agricultural purposes where most of the water is irrigated with drip irrigation. However, drip irrigation is a sniper water killer
- Drip irrigation uses 15 to 50 litres per tree per day. That looks little, but it means that one hectare of grapes with 2,500 plants uses 37,500 litres of water each day. (one acre with 1,000 plants uses 3,750 gallons each day). If water was priced at its costprice, growers could not produce crops with drip irrigation
- 50% Of the given quantity of water through drip irrigation evaporates
- In nature dry soil is white. That is not a coincidence, it cools the soil. However, the water from drip irrigation makes the soil black, so it heats up terribly
- The black color creates ideal circumstances for root diseases
- The diseases require treatments with pesticides, so drip irrigation leads to unhealthy food; and the pesticides are expensive to use It also causes salination of the soil – slowly the salt level rises, until the soil is too salty for trees/plants to grow
- Cities have incredibly high costs of investment of the expensive grid structure, eternal pumps use, maintenance and replacement of expensive tubes.
- Desertification, sinking water tables, erosion, hunger and poverty are multiple big problems in this world.
“ Qatarat® reduces the water use in agriculture and trees can be planted with less water. Qatarat® plant pot uses 90% less water and the trees that are planted with it have a survival rate of more than 90%! ”