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Soilless Culture and Growing Media

Most of the greenhouses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are still growing in soil-based compartments. Soilless culture is now a global practice in greenhouses. Soilless culture technology has solved the problems associated with growing plants in the soil, such as soil-borne diseases and salinity. Ma...

Plant Nutrition and Biostimulants

Plant nutrition and fertilization practices are important components of good agricultural practices (GAP). To contribute to the successful application of GAP, this program is designed to enhance soil fertility, nutrient functions in plant metabolism, plant nutrient requirements, fertilization manag...

Pest Management and Biological Control

Pest and disease control are considered as the most greenhouse crop practice with great impact on the environment and human health. At present, Saudi growers need to adopt appropriate Integrated Pest Management programs “IPM” to decrease applications of chemical pesticides and improve fruit quality...

Vertical Farming

Estidamah follows up the advancements in agriculture technology that support sustainability. Testing and adapting these technologies stand as one of the priorities of Estidamah research programs. Vertical farming, also known as indoor farming, has gained a lot of interest in recent years. This has ...

Climate Control

The greenhouse production sector has highly developed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the recent years. The weather condition in the Kingdom is characterized by long hot summer and limited water recourses. As well, protected cultivation is a necessity for a year-round production of essential ve...

Crop Management

Most of the greenhouses in the Kingdom are still grown in soil. Soil cultivation increases soil-borne diseases and accumulates salinity. Moreover, the present conventional soil-based growing system wastes a lot of freshwater due to runoff and deep percolation.In arid countries, rapid evaporat...

Integrated Pest Management

The extensive use of chemicals to control diseases and pests in open fields and greenhouse cultivation results in complex problems of insect resistance to chemicals, in addition to health and environmental hazards.Crop protection can be achieved by using control measures other than relying ma...

Irrigation And Nutrient Management

Limited water resources pose the main challenge for the Kingdom and other GCC countries. Here, agriculture depends largely on nonrenewable water resources. Levels of water in the deep aquifers have rapidly declined in the last decades. As a matter of fact, the lack of renewable water resource...

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