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Jojoba

A key to sustainable development in marginal lands

Summery

                Planting jojoba in marginal lands considered a sustainable approach to the environment and its resources.

Marginal lands are particularly defenseless to a range of problems associated with desertification; wide areas of the world’s dry lands can be characterized as marginal.

Jojoba {Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneider} considered a crop that consume less water than other crops, hot summers resist and great salinity tolerance, which can grow in many semi-arid regions of the world, would not require the use of chemical pesticides that pollute the environment, also, offers promise for agriculture in harsh environments where many other crops cannot survive in this kind of environment.

Jojoba produce seeds have 40–50% of its weight as oil, for that Jojoba represents a valuable renewable energy source which can replace fossil fuels in industries and in domestic appliances, also, jojoba oil used mostly in the pharmaceutical industry, cosmetics and as lubricants.

Jojoba has a potential use for rehabilitation as provision of income to the poor communities and Marginal land development. It has been used to combat and avoid desertification in the desert areas.

      For all these wonderful features jojoba plants can achieve sustainable development of marginal lands.