In an attempt to vent from the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the most crowded city in Egypt and perhaps Africa, an Egyptian youth specializing in agricultural engineering launched an initiative to grow homes, with vegetables and garden fruit crops, with the aim of facing the environmental risks resulting from the overcrowding and traffic overcrowding, in order to achieve the self -sufficiency of each house fromHis needs of various crops.
Ahmed Rajab Siam, who has the first rank on his motivation at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Al -Azhar University in Cairo, launched the "Green surface, better health" initiative, with the aim of exploiting parts of the surfaces in cultivating the crops that any family of vegetables, fruits, ornamental plants need and achieving self -sufficiency from them.
Cities suffocation
يقول صيام، صاحب الـ 25 عاما، إنه نتيجة الزيادة السكانية التي أدت إلى Cities suffocation بالسكان، وزيادة عدد المباني والمنشآت المختلفة من مساكن ومدارس ومستشفيات ومصانع وشركات، شهدت المساحات الخضراء داخل المدن انخفاضا كبيرًا في المساحات الخضراء.
He adds to the "Sky News Arabia" website that this resulted in many problems, led by the problem of air pollution as a result of increasing sources of pollution with different exhausts, whether from cars, factories or others, with the disappearance of the green plant, which is the only natural candidate for air pollutants.
According to the global rates, it is assumed that each 5000 people is 3000 square meters of different green areas, that is, it is supposed to be the area of green surfaces in Egypt from gardens and parks 60 million square meters, and the available of which is approximately 5 million, which prompted fasting, he said toThe idea of planting surfaces to be a penalty for solving this problem, in addition to achieving self -sufficiency in all crops in a healthy way.
"Siam" also added to the "Sky News Arabia" website, that through this initiative, he seeks to contribute to preserving the environment renewed and clean, and overcoming the lack of area of gardens and green plants in cities by planting the roofs of buildings, getting rid of trash that distorts the aesthetic appearance of buildings, and investingCultivation of surfaces in achieving a physical return, and reaching self -sufficiency for all the crops that any family needs.
Agriculture exercises
The initiative also does not only spread the idea, but also extends to training;The necessary information is provided to all individuals trained to start planting, encourage and follow up on surfaces during their implementation of various systems.
The initiative includes a complete team that has been training and qualifying them well and practical, as Siam explained that the team is completely aware of the implementation of various systems and have the ability to transfer the idea to those around them or those who need to support them;He pointed to the diversity of this team between students and graduates of agricultural colleges and other colleges from all governorates.
After the success of the initiative in Cairo, it extended to the rest of the Egyptian governorates as well as to other Arab countries, according to Siam, which referred to training students from all Egyptian universities, in addition to a large number of women and graduates and a large number of different Arab countries such as Jordan, Algeria, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and LebanonAnd Yemen;He explained that the trainees from the Arab countries were more luck, especially since some countries such as Yemen were for the first time implementing modern aquaculture systems without soil, while providing all information and follow -up with them.
He pointed out that, unlike the surfaces of the trainees, which are considered a good gesture to the place around it, there are many surfaces that were implemented by the initiative in various governorates and Cairo had the most luck in the number of surfaces that were implemented.
10 thousand roofs of a house
The initiative has already succeeded in planting many surfaces of Cairo, whether by the initiative or by the trainees and these surfaces are present, as Siyam indicated that there are models that have been completed and supervised and others are still under implementation, adding that the initiative aims during the year 2021 to reach to10 thousand surfaces with an average of 100 square meters.
High economic feasibility and saving systems
The only return behind this initiative is not only environmentally, but fasting confirms that anyone can expand and suffice his needs, in addition to marketing the surplus of their need at prices that double the product available in the markets of economic feasibility;Stressing that production of these systems reaches 8 times the same area of traditional production, because agriculture is carried out in agriculture without soil.
It varies according to fasting agricultural systems without soil, between water agriculture, air agriculture and others, stressing that it does not hide from anyone that production is a healthy food and free from any pesticides or chemicals as it is of high quality, and this is done without costs by re -use of existing wasteAnd adapt it to cultivation if it is available or purchasing the supplies for each system, whose prices differ according to the system and according to the area to be cultivated.
Siyam pointed out that the possibility of planting any plants that can be eaten or loves to smell and shape because this encourages the love of crops, pointing to the possibility of cultivating shadow ornamental plants if the sun is not available, but if available, the fruit vegetable plants suchLeafy vegetables such as "lettuce, watercress, cabbage and spinach", medicinal and aromatic plants such as "mint, basil, marjoram, rosemary and thyme", and fruit trees, especially dwarfs.
Technology to solve crises
To face the problems of some people's inability to agriculture, fasting and others succeeded in implementing a self -irrigation system using some sensors that measure moisture in the soil, and accordingly the irrigation pump is running self until reaching the degree of moisture required for the soil and then stopping it from operation, through an application on the phoneMobile, these people can use it to irrigate all plants from anywhere according to the data that are sent when the plants need to irrigate.
He was also implemented by fasting and others through the Faculty of Engineering Agriculture at Al -Azhar University, a system that gives its alert when the degree of concentration of salts with the nutrient solution for aquatic agriculture changes, explaining that the nutrient solution is considered the backbone of it and any change in it has great problems and consequences..
He concluded his speech that there are many control and programming systems that serve the agricultural sector in general, and there are still under development and implementation..
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