Agriculture accounts for around 70% of all fresh water consumed worldwide. In the Middle East / North Africa region, this goes above 85% and in Oman it is 94%1. Unprotected outdoor cultivation can demand more than 4 times the amount of irrigation water, as compared with shaded or more protected cultivation.
Evaporatively cooled, ‘pad and fan’ greenhouses provide a cooler and more humid climate, so that yields are higher and certain crops can be grown year round, even during the summer months which are too hot for unprotected cultivation.