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Their soil is extremely fertile. You can grow just about anything, even cotton, given enough water. Edit: grammar
by imoverclocked 4y ago
Their soil is extremely fertile. You can grow just about anything, even cotton, given enough water.
Edit: grammar
- mikewave 4y agoSounds like they should just start digging up and selling the soil, no?
- moralestapia 4y agoIf you didn't meant this as sarcasm, this is pretty much the worse thing you could do.
- mikewave 4y agoI'm no farmer, but I'm all ears! If you have dry useless soil and can't water it, does it not have some residual value as an export product? I suppose this is assuming that there's not going to be water in the future, and that you just want to extract whatever use there is left from an area before giving it over to desertification.
- moralestapia 4y agoSoil, and topsoil in particular, is an extremely valuable and non-renewable resource. When land becomes barren it could take 100s of years to regenerate, or it may never do, as in this case this is a desert and for this process to happen you need a continuous stream of biomass and microbes doing their stuff. If they did this, in a couple years they still wouldn't have water, and now they'd also wouldn't have land to pour the water onto, so they will end up in an ever worse state than now.
- stewarts 4y agoWhile not worthless, as there would still be nutrients present. A good bit of soil quality comes from the microorganisms within it.
- lovich 4y agoSoil is a complex ecosystem, digging into it, or worse excavating it, removes a lot of the value
- yummypaint 4y agoThat's because the areas with abundant water have already been overfarmed and had the soil destroyed. Soil is a complex ecosystem, but industrial farms conceive of things only in terms of "inputs" and "outputs" as though the soil is just some machine on an assembly line.