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Two students achieve a tubular planting for landscaping without digging and fertilizing
Muzna (right), and Fatima, with teacher Mariam during the presentation of the project at the National Science and Technology Festival.
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Two female students from Al-Tuwaiyin School for Basic and Secondary Education - Girls came up with an innovative idea for planting with biodegradable tubes that benefit the soil, in order to save effort and time for farmers, especially those who take care of gardens.
The project supervisor, the laboratory specialist at the school, Maryam Ali Al Yamahi, told «Emirates Today» that the idea of the pipe farming project implemented by the two students, Fatima Saeed Ali Rashid and Muzna Rashid Ali Rashid, is based on a long flexible tube that is bendable, made of bioplastic approved in Its components are on renewable, biodegradable materials, and when plastic decomposes, it benefits the soil and does not affect plants.
She stated that the tube is divided from the inside into two parts, and the separator between them in the middle is a porous material that allows water to permeate, and as for the upper part, there are holes through which seeds enter, and soil is present, so that the tube can be placed on the ground for cultivation, and then the farmer can coordinate Gardens without digging, plowing or fertilizing.
Al-Yamahi added that the tube constitutes sufficient protection for the seeds against wind, birds or insects, and after placing the tube on the ground, water is pumped at the bottom of the tube, so that the porous material in it withdraws the water, by means of the “osmotic” property, and then irrigates the soil and seeds in tube.
And she continued: "After months have passed since the plant's growth, and its roots are inside the tube, the tube begins to decompose in the soil, allowing the roots to complete their growth inside the soil without the need to transfer the seedlings to give the garden shape drawn in the tube in advance."
The two students participated in the pipe-growing project at the National Science, Technology and Innovation Festival, which was organized by the Ministry of Education at Expo 2020 Dubai.
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