AGRICULTURE: The high price of Riyadh's self-sufficiency drive
Large circles of crops, sprinkled across a barren lunar landscape, are some of the oddities that air passengers see when looking down on the kingdom. Some of these circles are even visible from space. They are the result of a bold experiment: to develop agriculture in the country from scratch. The kingdom is now home to a sizeable arable sector and huge dairy and poultry farms, but there is a huge cost to be borne from all this activity: precious water reserves are being tapped, which ...
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