Qatar is a rich second-generation heir who is handsomer than you, richer than you, and still works harder than you.

This country with the highest per capita income in the world never stops moving forward. Everywhere you look, there are cultural landmarks under construction, and on their construction walls it is written clearly how Qatar has advanced step by step: "Imagine, think, question, explore, realize!" The unknown means opportunity, and the next step after setback is breakthrough!

Qatar has a total arable land area of 28,000 hectares, of which 7,000 hectares are cultivated. For a long time, agricultural and livestock products could not meet its own needs, and grain, vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, and milk depended on imports. Only the output of fish and shrimp seafood could satisfy the country's demand. By rights, for a country located in an arid desert zone and lacking arable land resources, vegetables and fruits should be very expensive, right?

Qatar is a desert country with abundant oil and natural gas resources. Because of the lack of fresh water and scarce arable land, agricultural sideline products such as grain, vegetables, and fruits rely on imports. Even the soil needed for lawns and green belts on the streets of Doha has to be imported. In order to change this situation, the Qatari government strongly encourages agricultural development, provides farmers free assistance including seeds, chemical fertilizers, and agricultural machinery, and gives high subsidies to agriculture.

It is precisely on such barren desert that Qatar has to actively develop protected agriculture.

The government provides farmers with seeds, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery free of charge and vigorously implements the "vegetable basket" project.

Qatar is a country severely lacking in fresh water resources. Residential water use and agricultural irrigation water mainly rely on desalination of seawater. This is the fresh water treatment equipment at a farm owner's estate in Doha. It is worth 800,000 US dollars and treats 200 tons of fresh water per day.

Qataris also humbly ask Chinese agricultural experts for advice on vegetable planting techniques. A farm owner in Doha hired agronomists from Shandong and Guangdong in China to guide workers in growing vegetables in greenhouses and to teach soilless cultivation techniques.

Under the guidance of Chinese agricultural experts, the vegetables and flowers produced by a farm owner in Doha.

Through implementing the "vegetable basket project," the government has greatly enriched the vegetable supply in farmers' markets. This is a farmers' market in Doha, where about two-thirds of the vegetables are locally produced, and one-third are imported from abroad.

These are potatoes from China.

Because the vegetable supply is abundant, at the farmers' market in Doha, vegetables are surprisingly not auctioned by the kilogram, but by the "pile," and the prices are quite cheap.

A nation worthy of people's respect, Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world, yet its people are so diligent and do not sit back and enjoy the fruits or eat themselves out of house and home. You will be moved by their efforts.