Studying the Soil's Qualities in Hidd School and Suggestions for
Nourishment and Cultivation

**Shaikha Mohammed BuAli**

**Maha Mahmood Sabkar**

**Abstract**

**Researchers nowadays are highly concerned with the environmental
pollution and its effects on the crust \"air, water, soil\" which
resulted in the destruction of these layers and gradually changed the
property of the soil.**

**In other words an imbalance is caused in the earth\'s layers ecosystem
which must be treated with many modern scientific methods.**

**In the solid part of the crust comes the soil which is formed of
metals, organic substances, water and air.**

**The need for this study raised from the importance of the soil to the
living beings and its influence on the different kinds of human
activities.**

**In this study we shall focus on the difficulties that face agriculture
in our country and finding appropriate solutions to overcome these
difficulties and to improve the quality of the soil.**

**Hypothesis**

**What are the obstacles that face planting the barren land in our
school?**

**How to overcome these obstacles and find the appropriate solution?**

**Research Method**

**The ideal of the study started on a hint while observing the
plantation in the school environment. We noticed that most of the
growing plants were dessert types (Cactus, Palm trees) this showed that
the soil was hard and dry with a high salt level, little moisture and
highly alkaline.**

**So we thought of running more research to find appropriate solutions
for the treatment of this kind of soil.**

**We managed to fertilize the soil and make it suitable for cultivation
and we grew crops like (Cabbage, Capsicum, Cauliflower, tomatoes,
eggplants, okra, and fruit like water melon, Chico, guava and some
herbal leaves like mint, parsley, basil, etc...**

**Data Summary**

** **

**Through this study we were able to recognize the qualities of the soil
in our school and in other parts of the Kingdom.**

**A comparison was made between the types of soil to distinguish the
different types of crops.**

**Also we were able to specify the difficulties facing cultivation and
how to overcome them to achieve the finest results.**

**Analysis**

** **

**These types of plants require soil with specific properties as
follows:**

**The soil should absorb a certain amount of water, minerals and organic
substances.**

**These procedures were followed to treat the soil:**

**1-Specified the area to be cultivated.**

**2-Replaced the poor nutritional soil with a fertilized one.**

**3-Added natural manure to the soil and mixed it well.**

**4-Washed the soil three times to get rid of the extra minerals.**

**5-Divided the land into beds, spreader seeds and irrigated till it
grew.**

**6-Gradually and continuously added the compost, which can be prepared
by collecting tree leaves and dried plants.**

**7-Kept them in a wooden box and added water in limited amounts.**

**8-Added little amounts and irrigated the areas.**

**With this procedure we overcame the main difficulties facing the
cultivation in our school.**

**Thus, we were capable of winning the leading positions in the contests
held either by the Ministry of Education or the Kingdom of Bahrain.**

**Implementing the GLOBE program in our school helped to assure the
suggested solutions. Whereas, the branch studying the soil helped a lot
in recognizing its qualities through implementing soil research protocol
which depended on the following steps:**

** **

**1-Digging a one by one metered hole in a specific area for the
study.**

**2-Dividing the hole into several layers and marking them.**

**3-Taking specimens from each layer and studying different soil
characteristics such as: moisture, texture, color, types, rocks, roots
and carbons. (Certain booklets were used in this study).**

**4-Identifying the carbon level in the soil and immediately testing the
soil using citric acid.**

**5-Documenting the results on a form that was sent to the International
GLOBE Center in the USA.**

**6-The results were sent through the Internet from our school web
site.**

**7-Scientists and researchers then analyze the results.**

**8-All students document their reports in their GLOBE files.**

**Conclusion**

** **

**After the tremendous efforts to maintain a global balance, we
recommend the following:**

** **

**1-Applying the program to benefit all Bahrain schools.**

**2-Holding more conferences regarding the GLOBE program, to follow up
the updated scientific studies that serve both the community and the
environment.**

**3-Stimulating the co-operative spirit between the collaborative
schools in order to exchange experiences.**

**4-Raise the awareness by protecting the soil and using some of the
environmental resources (Tree leaves) to fertilize the soil.**

**5-Searching for methods and other alternatives to fertilize the
soil.**

**6-Organizing educational workshops to apply more efforts to take care
of the agricultural soil.**

**7-Support of the school syllabus using the results of this study and
other study the results of the GLOBE program.**

**Discussions**

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**Consequently, our students have benefited a lot from the GLOBE
program, which is obvious from the various experiments. They have also
been implemented in different parts of the kingdom.**

**The results of these experiments showed that there is a great deal of
differences in the agricultural areas and different kinds of
agricultural crops can be produced in the soils of the Kingdom of
Bahrain.**