The UAE Pavilion "Salt Water Cities" wins two awards at the end of "Expo Floriad 2022" The Netherlands

The UAE pavilion participating in the "Expo Floriad 2022" exhibition, which concluded in the Netherlands, won two honorary awards in the field of "Best Educational Experience", and the "Silver Award" for the official participants in the outdoor garden category for its successful presentation of the saltwater park.

Over the past six months, the country's pavilion participating in the exhibition under the slogan: "Cities of Salt Water .. Where the Land Meets the Sea" reviewed the efforts of the UAE in addressing various natural challenges, as well as the inspiring journey of the Emirati people, full of determination, through which they were able to overcome difficulties Living between two desert and marine environments to build cities that are today the most sustainable and developed in the world.

In a speech on the occasion, the UAE Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Commissioner-General of the State Pavilion participating in the exhibition, Jamal Al-Musharkh, said, "Receiving the pavilion for these awards is a tribute to the efforts of the UAE in the field of sustainability and environmental conservation, as this participation revealed the most important innovations presented by a group of Scholars and researchers who shed light on the value of our natural environment, which contributes to the development of more innovative and sustainable future solutions.”

He valued the efforts of the organizers of the international exhibitions and the International Association of Horticultural Producers, stressing that the event, over the six months of its organization, was able to mobilize many official figures, interested persons and scholars in the environmental field from all over the world to discuss and discuss many issues that serve to find the best solutions for a sustainable future, pointing to The UAE pavilion succeeded in introducing the country's efforts with regard to the biosaline agriculture system (which is agriculture in which saline water is used for irrigation), and the advanced research and projects undertaken by the UAE to preserve mangrove habitats.

Throughout the event, the UAE pavilion reviewed the country's achievements in relation to biosaline agriculture and presented an ideal vision of the country's incubation of halophytes within its ecosystem, as the UAE has the largest mangrove tree cover in the region, and continues to work on finding more innovations to overcome challenges Living in a desert and marine environment to create more prosperous and sustainable cities.

The Ministry of Culture and Youth supervised the pavilion and presented its design, which is a creative collaboration between the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Pragma Architects and its partner, TelArt, the Netherlands.

This is the first participation of the UAE in the exhibition, which is considered one of the leading international events in the field of horticulture and gardens, which is organized every 10 years and raises the slogan "Development of Green Cities". Food security, renewable agriculture and sustainability.

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