Rain Rain..the most important Arab country leader in this field

The importance of rain seeding, which works to trick clouds into dropping rain, is increasing in light of the growing climate crisis threatening waves of drought and extreme heat. However, Arab countries have been pioneers and pioneers in the field of rain seeding for more than half a century since its inception.

The Al-Shorouk newspaper reviews the most important rain-seeding experiences in the Arab world, one of the most recent and most impressive in the United Arab Emirates.

The world’s first rain-seeding experiments began in the mid-1940s in the United States of America, but it didn’t take long for it to gain a foothold in the Arab world to be the pioneer state of the Algeria in 1952, with an experience of rain seeding, the first of its kind on the African continent, under the aegis of France.

After two decades of successful sowing experience in the rain in Algeria, the next experience took place in Libya, with its harsh desert nature, where rain is scarce. The successful experiment took place in 1971.

The interest of Arab countries in solving rain-seeding to improve agriculture in desert areas was the use of American companies in each of the Moroccan Ghaith project in the mid-1980s and the Jordanian project in the late 1980s. .

According to the Moroccan Meteorological Authority, Moroccan seeding operations succeeded in increasing rainfall rates by 20%, which was used by warplanes or mountain generators.

In Jordan, the development operations of the rain-seeding program continued until it began to use modern and environmentally friendly techniques in the rain-seeding operations, which could help increase the rate. precipitation of 20% in the second poorest country in the world in water.

As for Iraq, the sowing experience in the 90s of the last century was a beacon of hope for Iraqi agriculture, but it quickly ran out of steam and ended because of the war.

Unlike the American presence in the field of rain rain in Arab countries, but the Russian presence was present in the rain-seeding project in Syria in the early 90s, which had positive results on Syrian agriculture, according to the annual reports of the project.

The Gulf Arab states have recently started adopting rain-seeding programs, as in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to improve the weather during the hot summer.