NELSPRUIT – You have plentiful land, you have crops to plant and you have billions of dollars to spend – however, the land is in the middle of the Sahara Desert with no irrigation and temperatures reaching 56 degrees Celsius.

These were the challenges Abu-Dhabi based Jenaan Investments was facing after it had signed an agreement with the Egyptian authorities to lease land for crop cultivation – in an area that receives less than 20 millimetres of rain a year.  A Lowveld-based company provided the solution – “Rain on Demand”.