Özet:

Qatar, with a population of 2.17 million, currently has poor cultivated lands and agricultural potential for self-sufficiency. The main problem is the infertile soil and harsh environment, which can be very common in Middle-Eastern Gulf regions. A country with only 1.6 % of arable land and could barely produce its own food would need to spend to import food to meet the demands of the population. An estimated amount of 11 billion USD has been spent on imported food in the year 2014 alone. A developing country like Qatar, which country is basically a desert, would need to come-up with a solution that would allow them to produce their own fresh food, even with an infertile soil. This project proposes to utilize a large-scale vertical-horizontal hydroponic soilless farming technology and aims to briefly present the technology of soilless farming and how it can be utilized for large-scale food production in Doha, Qatar. The Ministry of Environment of Qatar recently created the National Food Security Programme to address the food-shortage in Qatar. One of the main aspects of the program is to utilize various hydroponic systems to grow crops for food-production. Several ideas for the project has been made, but none of them utilizes both vertical and horizontal orientation of planting.

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