Warsan Nursery produces 47.11 million saplings in 2017 … reports Asian Lite News.
Dawood Al Hajiri, Director General of Dubai Municipality on Thursday visited Warsan Nursery, which is one of the vital projects of the Municipality. The nursery contributes to the expansion of the green area in the Emirate and the country by providing millions of seasonal and sustainable flower saplings and takes care of them as per the highest international and innovative standards in this area.
The visit, part of the Director General’s follow up of the service projects implemented by the Municipality, was aimed to know the work progress and practices applied in the nursery and its facilities and the services provided there.
During the visit, Al Hajiri toured the area of flowers, trees and points of sale, as well as the advanced device in the nursery, which converts plant waste to useful fertilizer, which contributes to the sustainability of the provision of agricultural materials that feed plants in the nursery.
“Our interest in the nursery comes within the scope of our belief in its positive and important dimensions and its pivotal and pioneering role in the agricultural field in the Emirate, which is in line with the Government’s wise directives to take care of the urban and environmental achievements and its role in making Dubai the city of cultural diversity,” he said.
Al Hajiri pointed out the importance of keeping pace with developments and innovations to contribute to the promotion of Dubai’s status within the world cities as a green city characterized by the beauty of the cultivated areas, which gives its facilities a spectacular and attractive cultural landscape to be like a beautiful painting.
He directed the planters to continue to contribute to increasing greening and landscaping in the city and its streets and parks and the invention of advanced methods, systems and technologies to achieve the strategic environmental objectives of the project.
The nursery provides various agricultural services such as the sale or rental of vases for external and internal beautification, and the service of coordinating and growing vases with indoor and outdoor plants, providing the structures for the formation of trees, shrubs and vegetable fences and the sale of hundreds of varieties of flowers, trees and shrubs.
The nursery also contains a number of integrated facilities such as greenhouses, shaded areas, soil and water laboratory, prevention laboratory, tissue culture laboratory, germination rooms, regular and refrigerated stores, and an integrated training hall.
The Public Parks and Horticulture Department of the Municipality currently has five nurseries at Warsan, Mushrif, Al Safa, Al Mamzar and Saih Al Salam. These nurseries serve as the bank that ensures the provision of all plant needs for green spreading projects, and the implementation of agricultural maintenance and cultivation of seasonal flowers.
It also provides the necessary local environment plants for the afforestation projects and for planting reserves, forests and outer roads. The Department is keen to develop nurseries and increase the area of production on a continuous basis.
The current and future nursery projects include greenhouses, automated production systems, shaded areas for flower production, trees and shrubs, traditional plant production, flower testing area, plant showroom and sales hall, staff offices, multipurpose training hall, agricultural warehouses and agricultural beautification areas, as well as many agricultural laboratories such as Soil and Water Laboratory, Prevention Laboratory, Tissue Culture Laboratory and Seed Unit, which includes Seed Laboratory and Germination Chamber.
It is worth mentioning that the Nursery Division has achieved many remarkable achievements during the year 2017. Last year, the nursery has produced about 47,111,196 saplings of various plant varieties, collected and cleaned 788,043 grams of seeds of various species, planted 837759.9 grams of seeds of different plant varieties, processed and planted 2148504 different species of plants, prepared and processed 870154 flower plant saplings.
Warsan Nursery cultivates all the plants automatically, which used to be done manually. Earlier, the automatic cultivation was limited to flowers only. Now all manual irrigation systems for production have been converted into automatic irrigation sites.
New plant varieties have been introduced and the nursery is following up the extent of their resistance and adaptation to growth in the country.