But there is also some farmland, and some semi-arid places.
The link below shows how sudden the change from sandy desert to irrigated fields can be.
Other strategies include things like goats -- great for mountainous areas where they can graze.
Saudi Arabia has dairy and other farms that depend on very deep water wells the bring up "fossilized" water. These are aquifers that no longer receive new rain.
We can complain about farmers in the U.S. over-pumping the Ogallala Aquifer faster then it is replenished; Saudi Arabia is pumping some of theirs that will never get replenished, once it's out it's out.
It's undeniable the farmland on average isn't close to par with the U.S. (of course we have more good farmland then anywhere else), and much of the middle east has milleniums of human abuse that has caused erosion and degradation.
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