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But on its website, Al Dahra acknowledges the challenges of climate change, noting “the continuing decrease in cultivable land and diminishing water resources available for farming.”

The study, by the University of Exeter, also projects that the variety of crops that can be grown will decrease on 72% of currently cultivable land worldwide -- further driving pressure to expand farming into wilderness.

The union's spokesperson pointed out that the cultivable agricultural area is only 2% of the province's territory.

Wildlife ventures into farm territory are becoming more common because of the large-scale annexation of natural habitats to cultivable agricultural lands.

"Also, the land has turned barren, and since most of my close neighbours haven't returned, there won't be farmhands available to make it cultivable."